After seeing the door torn off its hinges I knew whatever it was probably stronger than all of the other monsters I have faced so far.

"Can...can you do that Hector?" I can hear her voice trembling.

"Uh, probably not. Get ready to run, here are my keys to the 40th floor just in case."

After I gave her my keys, we walked the rest of the way up the stairs and definitely reaffirmed my belief that this is different than the others. What we saw in the hallway was a figure that was probably around 7 feet tall and was extremely buff. I could see each individual muscle building but we could tell that this thing probably wasn't human anymore as it has veins showing everywhere on him and his skin was a blackish color and to top it off we could see that it holding a body in the air with it jerking back and forth.

*slurp slurp crunch*

We could hear wet smacking sounds and crunches as if bones are being crushed.

I tried to slowly bring Amelia up the stairs but she accidentally smacked her duffel bag against the railing causing a loud ringing sound to sound out. I froze and I could see her eyes tearing up. We turned to look at the figure in the hallway and it slowly turned around showing us its face that stuff of nightmares. It had black holes where its eye sockets were and a hole where its nose was and as it noticed use it smiled unnaturally wide and we could see large razor-sharp teeth. It dropped the body it was holding and started walking towards. Then I once again heard that demonic whisper in my ear calling deep down to my soul.

"Devour him..."

I could feel my adrenaline pumping, my vision was turning red and my veins starting bulging and devastating hunger starting to consume me slowly losing control of my body as try to get my body to leave.

I looked at Amelia and I could see the fear in her eyes when she looked at me. I don't know what I look like but I know it is probably scary.

"Run upstairs" I tell her softly

"But Hector..."

"Go...I'll be right behind you." I squeeze her hand gently and manage to show her a smile as I can hear the demonic screams in my ear urging my body to fight the incoming beast. I can see that she is hesitant but she turns and runs upstairs.

"Good, you'll be safe and I didn't want you to me like this." With Amelia gone the madness consumes as I fully lose control and my body turns and starts running towards the monster. It also starts running towards me and each step cracks the ground.

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This is like a boss in a videogame, and unfortunately I only have one try to kill it. There aren't any reloads here.

As we get closer to each other I can feel the ground beneath me shake with the force of the incoming monster and when we reach each other he reaches out to try and grab me but I sidestep it and deliver a powerful punch straight to it's side.

*thud* it feels like I am hitting a brick wall and after my punch does little damage to the beast it swings its arm out colliding with me flinging me against the wall cracking it and after crashing into I manage to dodge out of the way just in time for it to throw a massive punch where I just was a second ago embedding its arm in the wall up to its elbow. It doesn't hinder its movement for long as it rips its arm out throwing chunks of the wall out and starts charging towards me like an unstoppable train. Luckily I am faster than it and can dodge its moves pretty well for the most part. I start trying to focus its joints and manage to land a few decent punches that seem to do some damage as it feels like there is less power behind its swings. It is going pretty well and I am confident in being able survive this fight until I make a fatal mistake.

*crash*

*riiiiipppp*

I stumble on a body and as I am hitting the floor the monster grabs my right arms and ripps it straight out of my sucket tearing it off spraying blood everywhere.

"ahhhhhh!!! Fuck! My arm." As I am starting to lose consciousness from the pain he picks me up and throws me against the wall and slump down to the ground as a few of my ribs are probably broken and probably bleeding out from the inside right now. My body is slowly regenerating but I won't heal in time before he kills me.

*stomp stomp stomp*

He knows he won as he slowly stomps towards me step by step.

Am I going to die again? Is it going to permanent this time? I wonder if Amelia made it safely to my floor. I wish I could have had more time with her she seems like a really good person.

*thwack*

"Hey over here you freak"

I watch a shoe collide into its head and hear a familiar voice yell at it.

I turn my head to see the beautiful curvaceous figure of Amelia standing at the doorway with tears running down her face.

"A..amelia?" She really is different from most of the people I have met in my life. Most humans are selfish and won't put themselves in danger when they have a chance to escape it, but for someone who I only just met to come back I feel like she is someone I can finally trust. I then shake in horror as the monster turns towards and starts walking towards her. She is frozen in place in fear. It plans on killing her. If I could do one thing with this useless life of mine I want to save someone who still has good in them.

stand up body

I try to get up but I collapse again and start crawling towards it.

I can't let it kill such a good person.

I watch it get closer and closer to her.

No..no..no

In the midst of despair, I hear the demonic whisper again only this time it is loud and full of rage.

"DEVOUR HIM!!"

I gain a surge of strength as I feel a raging inferno burning in the depths of my soul and I stand up and surge forward towards and jump on its back latching my one arm around its neck and start tearing into it consuming his flesh while tearing chunks out of his neck and he can't reach me with his arms so he slams his back into the wall to get me off.

"gah!" I yell out in pain but I continue to consume him to fill my unquenchable rage and evenly I tear into it enough that I manage to dig my hand in the torn neck grabbing his spinal cord crushing it instantly killing him. He slumps forward and I fall with him flinging to the ground in front of him. The last thing I remember is seeing Amelia running towards me before I lose consciousness.