Inside the family home, squelching black pods cover the walls. Jean's eyes protrude out from one of the pods, she suddenly opens her eyes and tries to scream, but the tar has her mouth muzzled shut. She thrashes against her tight bonds as a black blob marches into the room. It trudges up to her face and out of it comes a human skull. Her eyes go wide as she tries to scream. She gags at the smells of decay. It tilts the skull at her, eyes pop out from it as she pushes an arm through the pod, popping it. She falls to her knees and knees as sludge spills with her. She pukes out black liquid as the blob shrieks at her. She wipes her mouth as the unholy being stares at her.

Her heart pounds as it just stares and clicks with countless eyes. She quivers and slips flat onto the floor. She slowly pushes herself to her feet to face the monster. She freezes in place as the skull changes to someone she had to have known. The light in the room distorts, her body trembles as the sludge clogs her pores. Diesel's head floats out and drops to the floor. As the head drops to the floor, she bolts past the creature and out the door. She catches her breath and for a mile around, black sludge lines the ground. Her eyes dart around, demons limp across the landscape. She grabs at her head as a bad headache comes on. A man in tattered clothing grabs Jean's shoulders, "Run!" She pushes him and the demons eat him alive.

A tendril wraps around her leg and Jean tumbles to the ground. She claws at the black soil with a series of short screams everything goes black-

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I grab at my head, "No!" Kaylin squints at me, "What's going on?" I pound on a wall, "I can't see her!" "Focus on the others, Markus!" I nod.

A blackened man with purple eyes smiles in a dark room with red lights, "Jean." I quiver at the energy he gives off, a thick miasma of death, destruction. "Submit."

Norbert finds Mama, she sits in the holes of the turtle's shell. He pulls himself up away from the bullets cracking against the poor thing as the he retreats with a loud hiss.

I fall to my knees as he continues, "Why be tortured any longer? Let yourself be consumed. The sweet release of death." I look down, but he lifts my head to face him, "It won't hurt at all, it might even feel good." I gulp, "You'll help the end- Of everything."

My eyes open wide as my hands explode up. With an effortless violent motion, I tear myself out the pod. I plop onto the floor, the blob shrieks and holds me up. My body goes limp. I can't escape. The black blob lowers my feet into itself, a tingling feeling trickles up my legs. I scream as all the blood, all the pain flash by. Diesel scowls at my submission. Glass shatters from my screams as the blob spits me out and bolts away with a pained shriek. Landing to the floor in a puddle of sludge, I bawl my eyes out as the sludge retreats from my broken pod. I close my eyes as the pods squelch and bubble to nothing. I can feel it.

The tendrils retreat from the home entirely and Norbert rushes in, examining her. He sighs and carries her out the broken home.