As I was surrounded by these creatures, they gave me the same look as the previous one did back at the farm, like they knew me and were trying to figure out who I was. Then one of the creatures with white eyes started to approach me, it looked like it wanted me to be its next dinner. Then suddenly I was struck in the head by it, the force was so strong that it sent me backwards, but I was able to recover and get back up.
If that is what just one could do to me there was no chance at fighting these guys, it was a death sentence if I tried. Suddenly another one of the creatures looked like it was ready to fight, it was one of the yellow eyed ones. Right before it could hit me though another screech was let out in the distance ahead.
Quickly after all those creatures started heading in the direction of the screech, they were communicating with each other, maybe they were some sort of aliens? However, the problem is they were heading in the direction of Fort Francis, which just so happened to be the same direction I was going. It was too dangerous to head there at night. I was going to have to wait till day before I go.
I decided my best bet right now was to hide away in the field, I don't know how their sense of smell is, they may not be able to find me if I am hiding in the field. I was trying to find a spot in the field, then a creature jumped out at me, it was some kind of coyote or something, I pushed it off and started running back to the street. Why does everything want to kill me? Humans, those creatures, the wildlife.
I decided the safest place was to go back to the car and try to sleep in there, that way the wildlife wouldn't target me, I ran in the direction of the car and as I was running, I could see a horde, it was those creatures, I stopped and immediately started going for the field. Hopefully they will leave me alone and then I can get to the car.
I sat there hiding in the field, I watched as they passed it was like a stampede, there were hundreds maybe thousands of them all going to the same place, I couldn't help but think what was going on, finally after a few minutes passed they finally all passed me. I got back to the road and continued heading to the car, luckily, I hadn't seen the 5 men again, there was too many of those creatures though I couldn't imagine they would have survived that.
I had finally reached the car, I opened the door and got in, I knew it was a small chance of working but I turned the key anyway, sure enough it didn't start up, I looked in the back for maybe something to cover up with, it was cold inside the car, unfortunately the car was pretty much empty, looters may have already gotten to it.
I tilted the seat back as far as possible so that I could lay down. It was very cold inside the car to the point where I was shivering. After what felt like an eternity, I finally fell asleep.
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The following morning when I woke up it was still cold, however while I was asleep a dog seemed to have gotten in the car and cuddled up next to me, keeping me a little warm, it was a golden lab. I went to pet it but as soon as I touched the dog it jumped up and bolted out the window. Looks like he was just trying to stay warm just like me. It was dawn outside and I could see the sunrise. I looked around and there were no more of those creatures. And no sign of anyone else, including the five men.
I continued walking back to Fort Francis, I didn't see any creatures so I wondered where they must have all gone, as I was thinking this a memory came back to me.
I was standing there, there was four people surrounding me, two females and two males. We were all wearing white lab coats, the first female was average height and had long red hair, she was smiling as she was talking to me, the second lady had black hair and was short, she looked like she could have been a model if she wasn't in that lab coat. The first male was skinny and had freckles and glasses, he was very tall and had brown hair. The last man was roughly six foot two, he had a more toned body, with black hair.
The first lady was talking to me, "If we can figure this out then it could revolutionize the medical field."
The man with the black hair then started talking, "We just have to keep everything quiet, we all know what happens when someone finds out we are trying to help people."
The short girl budded in at this point, "Guys I bought us something, since this is such a big project and the reason we are all here today I got you all gifts."
She reached in her pocket and pulled out some necklaces, she handed one to each of the people, it was a friendship-like necklace, each one carried their initial on the front and on the back the names of all the other members, then she gave me mine which was bigger than everyone else's, on the front it said to our humble leader and best friend Theodore. The shape of my necklace made it look so that the rest of the necklaces would fit into mine.
Once the memory passed, I felt my neck for the necklace it was still on me, I pulled it out and inspected it, I wanted to look at the names, who were those people that were my friends, but on the back of my necklace were only initials next to each indent. T, S, A, and J. I wish I could have seen the names on the necklaces in my memory. As I was approaching the fort I noticed something was off, there was no one here. It was like the place had been abandoned.
Maybe it was a good thing there was no one here, seeing how violent everything has been since I woke up, I don't think I want another encounter with anyone else. I walked through the front gate and was hit with the sweet smell again, only this was extremely strong, I almost couldn't resist the temptation to follow the smell, even though I knew where it would lead me.
I looked around and there were bodies everywhere, most of them looked like they had been decomposed, there were just skeletons, with scattered bodies, the blood was fresh which means this had to have happened recently, is that what that horde was doing? Were they attacking Fort Francis I had to look around for any signs of survivors. I walked into one of the rooms and it looked like a planning room, on the table spread out there was a map, I looked at the map and it had a red circle on it. The red circle was around a location called Euthoria.
That was the same place that the barn told me to go, so I grabbed the map and was about to leave, then I noticed a bulletin board which was covered, I pulled down the cover and that's when I saw it, the bulletin board had a lot of information about what those creatures outside were.