#gorillapedes

[thequantumlyunstableman]

The Shadoweater 10-16 Mar

She shook as the spectral essence rose from into her the creature's mouth and when it was done the Sharkwoman collapsed as if lifeless. The yetispecter roared grimly. When it glared at me, its face was even more hidden in darkness and shadow. It was now more ghost than form. But there was something else in its eyes, as the gorillapedes pulled it away. Was it possible? Could it really have been... sadness?

I knelt to look at the Sharkwoman. I couldn't tell if she were alive or dead, but she wasn't moving. I tried to rouse her, but it was no use. I was surprised however to see her wounds were no longer black, nor was her blood. What had that creature done to her really?

But before I could examine her further, the gorillapedes came to take her away. "Get off of her!" I yelled. One of them roared at me and hit the cage with its hand, but there was nothing I could do to stop them. I was trapped.

Time passed, the light faded, and I thought maybe the gorillapedes had forgotten about me. I HOPED they had, but I heard a noise coming close. I squinted into the darkness, but it wasn't until the creature got up against the cage that I saw that it was the yetispecter coming for me! The monster grabbed the cage and began to shake it. I backed away as it bared its teeth at me.The bars bent, then snapped as the monster tore them apart. I wanted to scream, but for who? For what? The Gorillapedes?

The creature came closer, but I couldn't run, my back was already up against the cage. It leaned in toward me and opened its mouth. "Quickly," he whispered.

"What?" I replied, shocked to hear the thing speak.

"Hurry! We have to move before they see us."

"Move?" I asked, wondering if I had heard him correctly.

"They're going to eat your friend," he told me.

"Eat her?"

"They're already finished eating the munsorv. She's going to be next. They had me suck the shadows out of her. It's poison to them, to most creatures. Now that it's gone they can eat her."

"Why are you helping us?" I asked.

"Because I cannot stand by. I have tried before but the captors are never strong enough to help me. I think maybe you can be."

"I'll try," I told him.

"Hurry! We must save her!" The shadoweater turned and rushed out through the hole in the cage. I followed behind him but kept my distance just in case. Was it a trap? I wondered. Even if it was, it was better than being stuck in that cage.

The shadoweater led me through the village where we saw dozens of gorillapedes. I could see the body of the acid monster cracked open like an egg, hollowed out inside. And in the middle of the gathering lay the unconscious Sharkwoman. One of the larger gorillapedes moved toward her and began chanting. The Sharkwoman began to revert to her less human form. "Why are they doing that?" I asked.

The shadoweater whispered back, "So there will be more of her to eat."

to be continued next week

or everyday on @QuantumUnstable

[thequantumlyunstableman]

So Come the Gorillapedes 3-9 Mar

As they came out of the shadows, they looked like gorillas with dark red hair. I tried to get to my feet in a hurry, but fell once or twice. And as the red gorillas approached, they rose up. Not just inches, but feet. Dozens of feet, nearly hitting their heads on the ceiling. That was when I realized that their bottom half was like that of a centipede.

The gorillapede dove at me and I tried to dodge, but wound up on the ground. It circled around me. Its legs forming a perimeter around me. The gorillapede continued to spin around me and the legs got closer and tighter around me until it wrapped around me. I tried to struggle, but it just tightened its grip, squeezing away my breath. The creature turned its body to growl in my face.

One of the other gorillapedes moved toward the Sharkwoman. I tried to scream at it to stop, but I had no breath left. The gorillapede curled around the Sharkwoman cautiously, but when she remained unmoving the creature grabbed her. But they didn't kill us there. Instead they carried us away, me, the Sharkwoman, and even the dead cabbage monster.

They carried us to their village where there were many more gorillapedes watching us being carried in. I was thrown into a cage, but the Sharkwoman was dropped onto the ground and the acid monster was carried away. What were they going to do to the acid monster and worse what were they going to do to us? I worried for the Sharkwoman, but I worried more for myself. I was trapped in this cage. I tried to shake the bars but the cage held.

Then I saw two Gorillapedes coming our way. I was scared of what they might do to us until I noticed the chains they were pulling. Then I noticed the monster behind them, the one they felt the need to chain, and I was scared of it. The creature was tall, perhaps seven feet tall, and surprisingly slim. It was covered in white fur and had enormous hands and feet. It had fangs and claws, but what scared me the most was the blackness that clung to it making it look like it was part specter. It made me feel like it was some kind of half-yeti, half-ghost abomination that was caught between this world and the next.

The gorillapedes led the ghostyeti to where the Sharkwoman lay unconscious on the ground. I yelled at them to stay away from her! I banged the bars of my cage and tugged at them to try to rip them out, but they wouldn't budge and no one seemed to care. The yetispecter bent over her. It opened its mouth and ghostly substance began to rise from the Sharkwoman, as if it were eating her soul!

to be continued next week

or everyday on @QuantumUnstable