Nameless Survivors
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was already informed about the case.
Outside, the man expression was enough to shock and convince everyone when he said, almost in a scream, there was something in the house, but wasn't human, it was not "one of us".
Coinciding with the story of the children, all deduced that the invasion did not belong, even in this world.
A police car came and the police entered bravely, without hesitation before the gruesome reports.
After minutes of silence, a couple of shots broke the silence, then more shots followed, an intense burst.
A policeman came through the window, running toward the car, asking for reinforcements and, later, went back into shooting at something.
Everyone started to fear even more, because the sound denounced horrors inside.
Finally other cars arrived and dozens of armed men came to fire with everything they had brought, causing the attacker to make a disturbing sound, a dialect in pops and hisses, emited by some unknown organ.
Finally, the front door opened and the creature came out, looking at everyone.
It wasn't sure if it was an alien, but it primitive and macabre, with a single huge eye in the head, bright as a moon.
Now the family understand the "two moons" that their children saw. One was, in fact, the moon, and the other was the face of the grotesque being.
Suddenly that huge eye emmited a flash, the father felt his body lose control when his vision was taken by light.
He fell and all was silent for seconds until a bump made him awake.
He was on the bed, it was morning and his sons played around.
"It was just a dream ..." he thought before getting up to follow his daily routine.
Later, he felt his body cold to see that, even though everything was normal, there was the mark of a deep scratch on the sink metal close to the same place where he saw the intruder in that bizare "dream" ...
Ivy
That was a summer night, hot, full of flying insects and moths disoriented by street lights.
A drunken trio is going through the most wooded area of the city, and are suddenly approached by a beautiful woman, with the shortest clothes they have ever seen in life.
Smiling at them, she calls the group into the woods, in the "privacy of nature" because she wanted "to surprise the three."
Drunk or sober, they would accept the same way, then they entered laughing.
Within minutes, the cry of the three echoed that area full of trees.
The men were never seen again, and parts of their clothes were found at several points, increasingly distant from that area.
The authorities believed that someone had kidnaped and taken them to somewhere in the middle of the metropolis, but could not imagine what could have been the end of the three friends.
A week later, a couple was walking through the wooded area, both exercising on a hot summer morning.
Suddenly the girl hear an odd sound and alert her companion, who is already stopped because he also heard.
The sound was like a hard thing breaking, unlike the sound of breaking branches, more like popping a bone during a body stretch.
The couple went closer, both fearful and very curious about the noise that continued repeating itself with different intensities.
When curiosity overcame the fear, the girl opened the nearest bush and took steps toward the forest, feeling gradually pleasant smell of perfume.
The lad followed her fearing for her life, but soon they were both going slowly on a path guided by their noses.
Already far from the road, the sound stopped, but the smell kept around and seemed to come from a point in particular, where someone was lying on the ground.
The fallen person breathed and moved slowly, without getting up, what made the couple run to help the stranger.
When they arrived, there were the three ... "Bodies" of the disappeared friends, prostrated on the ground, but with the lower parts of the body fused to a huge volume.
The three bodies were mixed as part of a single thing that resembled a huge plant with a bulb enclosed in the center.
The dead were the tips of living tentacles, surrounding the couple in a manner they couldn't flee.
Plant and dead body moved, snapping the bones, in a decomposition prevented by some chemical produced by the plant.
Soon the couple was involved, literally, by tentacles. The trapped girl and the boy suspended over the bulb.
Slowly, the tentacle came down to bring the man near the bulb, which would open.
They saw with horror the bulb opening and turning into a giant flower, containing a human silhouette in the center. A very attractive woman.
That creature was in a hurry and went straight to the point:
"I need you to mate and expand my tentacles... If you accept, I'll spare your life and let the girl go ...".
The creature wanted the boy to breed, and the couple did not have much time to decide the right answer.
The man agreed, but winked one eye, signaling to his girlfriend that he already had a plan.
The truth is, the creature would keep them both and would use them as a macabre adornment with no chance of escape.
Inside the bulb, the man met the creature, which had a beautiful naked body, and soon he began to feign interest to get closer to his target.
Embracing the beast by the back, he pretended to kiss her neck following to the point where , in a human body, it would be vital.
In a sudden movement, he sank his teeth with all his strength, giving the greatest bite of his life, breaking the neck of the beast with an effort of the whole body.
It was not blood that flowed, but a sweet perfume of sap, soon to attract the insects in the vicinity.
Seizing the moment of confusion, the lad darted out of the bulb, then ran out of the place while her companion went few steps ahead.
Both escaped the creature, writhing and drying up little by little, so that the authorities found only confusion and an unidentified plant, which 'eventually dried next to the bodies of the missing mans".
But that was not the end, because, at home, the couple recovered from the shock as the days passed, but the smell of the creature's sap still impregnated the man, no matter how many baths he took or how many different clothes he wore.
It could be psychological, but everyone felt and even praised the fragrance.
At home, on vacation, he tried to distract himself by cooking, but an oversight, or destinny's will, made a small cut on his index finger.
To his horror, there was no blood, just a clear and fragrant substance, as the creature that day...
His companion was equally startled to see that, but tried to remain rational, after all, he felt good ... maybe better than before.
In the following days, nothing that the girl said would change his situation, as he began to find several large and sharp thorns in his body, enough to convince anyone that it was not a normal person's problem.
Few days later, he fell asleep to awaken usually in the yard, standing, illuminated by the sun.
The body felt fine, but the mind was too confused to understand all the changes.
Instead of skin, thick layers arose and were impossible to remove, but the man still had his human mind.
Side by side, the couple held firm until the day he "woked up" in the yard again, completely covered by a bizare think layer full of thorns, unconscious and solid, immovable.
While the girl tried to break through that cocoon, inside her companion was facing an internal battle.
He found himself in a vivid dream, wrapped in branches and roots, kneeling on thorns of roses, in an empty dark and disorienting place.
Suddenly, the creature appeared before him without its tentacles, with only her feminine body. And laughed watching the situation that poor fellow.
He tried to get up, remove the branches and leave the pain of thorns, but the creature just kept coming closer, laughi
ng, giving him greater sense of urgency.
Before him, she raised a hand and part of the of the empty place lit up, revealing countless tentacles behind the beast's back.
Many of them came together to form a powerful arm, descending upon the man, blending his body with twigs and thorns that bound him.
That man, or what was left of it, had two options, move and try to escape or stop the movements.
He went limp, eyes closed, broken body, and the creature continued to strike ... One, two, three, four times.
The creature crushed him completely... but the dream was not over, something of that man was left.
The creature continued to strike and crush everything she saw, and when tired, finally realized that the will of man was unshaken.
He could be flawed, fragile and be defiled, but he was sober about his identity.
Little by little the beast couldn't stand the fact of turning into a mere ghost inside a stable mind.
She began to dissolve, her pieces floating in a vacuum, bursting, being blowed away.
Finally the dream ended, the cocoon broke and what came out of it was a man, not an uncontrolled beast.
Hugging his girl, he was in full control of his mind, and some beast couldn't make him lose consciousness of who he was.
The contamination and spread of the beast was ended by the force of a strong mind.