After gaining enough courage to venture forward into this new and unknown world, I climbed through one of the shattered windows of my apartment.
The ground was moist and deflated under the weight of my feet. I looked around in all directions in hopes of finding some kind of landmark to follow. I found none, but ultimately decided to follow the two moons I had first beheld upon my arrival. I glanced back at my upturned apartment that looked incongruous against the alien backdrop.
As I trudged atop the bog-like ground I listened to the faint whistle of the winds. They were soothing and almost therapeutic.
I looked at the thickets of tall slender grass that extended outward in all directions over the rolling hills of this alien world. They swayed like euphoric sea anemones in a gentle ocean current. I had nearly forgotten that I was on another world until I heard a bone chilling sound from my right.
Hidden deep in the thickets it ran. I heard it sprint in a semicircle behind me. I paused and focused on the sounds; the sardonic whispers of buzzing clicks and alien guttural moans. The sounds resembled that of what can only be described as a dying goat with a swarm of locusts in its throat. Then I jumped with a start when I beheld a creature just to my left.
The creature stood almost entirely concealed by the swaying thickets, but I could see it was vaguely humanoid with predominantly aquatic-reptilian features. It stood nearly seven feet tall and was grotesquely slender. Its arms were outstretched in either side as if it were preparing for battle. At the end of both its thin arms I saw three massive fingers each ending with menacing claws that were a pale ivory. The skin on its arms hung loosely over the thin bone that protruded from it. The skin fell the way old women's arms sometimes dangle.
The creature took a powerful step toward me and left the cover of the grass. Its body was a malformed impersonation of The Creature of the Black Lagoon. It cocked its head to the side and let out a croaking groan that was reminiscent of a bull frog's dying belch. The beast took another step toward me and my bladder failed, for I saw the whole of its head. It was a bald scaly head with two holes in either side that were, what I assumed to be ears. At the bottom stretched a giant mouth that hung open with a plethora of jagged needle-thin teeth. Above that were two slits that were most likely nostrils and above that was just skin that extended to the back of its head.
The eyeless creature took another step toward me and that was when I became weak and blacked out. When I awoke I was being drug along the moist ground toward the sound of lapping water. I felt an abrasive hand clenching one of my ankles. I looked around and beheld four of the eyeless creatures walking beside me, they all had their gazes fixed onto something off in the distance in the direction we were traversing.
Then I saw it, a mammoth body of water extending in all directions. In the center of the still water stood three cyclopian spires that protruded from the lake like some perverted Dr. Suess imitation. Then the creatures took me into the water and I held my breath.
-Jestro
The ground was moist and deflated under the weight of my feet. I looked around in all directions in hopes of finding some kind of landmark to follow. I found none, but ultimately decided to follow the two moons I had first beheld upon my arrival. I glanced back at my upturned apartment that looked incongruous against the alien backdrop.
As I trudged atop the bog-like ground I listened to the faint whistle of the winds. They were soothing and almost therapeutic.
I looked at the thickets of tall slender grass that extended outward in all directions over the rolling hills of this alien world. They swayed like euphoric sea anemones in a gentle ocean current. I had nearly forgotten that I was on another world until I heard a bone chilling sound from my right.
Hidden deep in the thickets it ran. I heard it sprint in a semicircle behind me. I paused and focused on the sounds; the sardonic whispers of buzzing clicks and alien guttural moans. The sounds resembled that of what can only be described as a dying goat with a swarm of locusts in its throat. Then I jumped with a start when I beheld a creature just to my left.
The creature stood almost entirely concealed by the swaying thickets, but I could see it was vaguely humanoid with predominantly aquatic-reptilian features. It stood nearly seven feet tall and was grotesquely slender. Its arms were outstretched in either side as if it were preparing for battle. At the end of both its thin arms I saw three massive fingers each ending with menacing claws that were a pale ivory. The skin on its arms hung loosely over the thin bone that protruded from it. The skin fell the way old women's arms sometimes dangle.
The creature took a powerful step toward me and left the cover of the grass. Its body was a malformed impersonation of The Creature of the Black Lagoon. It cocked its head to the side and let out a croaking groan that was reminiscent of a bull frog's dying belch. The beast took another step toward me and my bladder failed, for I saw the whole of its head. It was a bald scaly head with two holes in either side that were, what I assumed to be ears. At the bottom stretched a giant mouth that hung open with a plethora of jagged needle-thin teeth. Above that were two slits that were most likely nostrils and above that was just skin that extended to the back of its head.
The eyeless creature took another step toward me and that was when I became weak and blacked out. When I awoke I was being drug along the moist ground toward the sound of lapping water. I felt an abrasive hand clenching one of my ankles. I looked around and beheld four of the eyeless creatures walking beside me, they all had their gazes fixed onto something off in the distance in the direction we were traversing.
Then I saw it, a mammoth body of water extending in all directions. In the center of the still water stood three cyclopian spires that protruded from the lake like some perverted Dr. Suess imitation. Then the creatures took me into the water and I held my breath.
-Jestro
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