Days Until Death - Pharoah Sherry (libby ebook reader .txt) 📗

Days Until Death

I’m in my room playing my PS4 until I hear it. A ghastly shriek from downstairs, it was my mother. She rarely shows emotion, so I was afraid but curious. As I crept down the stairs ready for whatever it was to come. Then I saw it a lanky figure 10 ft tall holding an arm in its razor, sharp teeth. I scanned the room for my mother, but all I saw I all directions were body parts. I ran upstairs and locked myself in my room I grabbed my bat and hid. I heard the creature close behind my door making a clicking sound with its mouth, and a deathly scraping sound with its claws. I try to think of something to happy, but I can’t. I try to imagine me having a name, but I don’t have one. My brain was thinking of the upmost importance. I knew what I had to do I had to escape this house. Right after I had that thought as if on cue my bedroom door burst into splinters. The thing broke into my room and now it was searching I quickly hid under a pile of clothes in my closet. It knew where I was from the start, I heard the closet door being torn off, of its hinges. Then I felt it the sensation of being on a rollercoaster. The thing had grabbed me, and I was now face to face with this beast I looked it in its bulging, bloodshot, eyes. Its irises were the color of crimson blood, and its mouth was dripping saliva. I saw the murderous intention in its eyes as it was planning how to mutilate me, I thought faster, and I bashed its skull with my bat. It dropped me but it took me but a second to catch my breath and get up. I ran to my window as the creature held its head in pain and I jumped out of my still closed window, and then I felt the tiny shards of glass stick into my skin. I fell from two stories, but I could tell that the thing was confused of my location, so I had plenty time to find my way around my back yard and get the oxygen back into my lungs. Then I saw a hole in the fence so I quickly crawled through, and I saw it since I lived on a very forested hill so I could see the carnage unfold in the town below. There was an entire horde of weird mutant creatures. I quickly ran down the opposite side of the hill towards the countryside, and then darted to closest house. I jumped in the house, and I locked the doors and windows so none of the creatures would see me or get inside. I searched the house for armor and, weaponry and I saw a toolbox and quickly thought of weapon ideas. I grabbed some nails and a hammer and hammered some nails into my bat to make it do some damage, and then I found a few hunting knives, and a tool belt so I used that to hold the knives and I used a sash I found to tie the bat around my back. Then I filled a backpack I found with all the food and supplies I could, and I fled the house. As I trekked through the rough terrain of the countryside, I saw a forest and I instantly felt relieved that I could finally get a break from the relentless sun and walking. I jogged towards the forest and found a large tree to rest by. I sat down and fell asleep by the time I woke up it was evening time, so I got to building a shelter, and I collected some logs and branches. Then after that I collected some moss and insulated my shelter to keep out the cold of the night. I pulled out a sweater I found out of the old house and put it on and used the backpack as a pillow. I left my shelter and went to collect some things to start a fire, I got some batteries and, aluminum foil from the house so I pressed the aluminum foil against the batteries positive and negative ends to get an ember. I then lit the tinder I had prepared and made a fire so I could stay warm and cook some of the scavenged food from the old house. And a horrible thought crept into my head after I grabbed a can of beans and a can of spinach from my bag. The monster I hit earlier might be hunting me now since I hurt it. But I quickly dismissed the thought and went back to eating my beans and spinach. A trickling sound was coming a few meters away from my camp, so I went over, and it turned out to be a stream. I went back to camp and used an old metal water bottle to collect the water. After collecting the water, I went back to camp and boiled it, so it was drinkable, after drinking the water I slept. In the middle of the night, I heard a deathly howl I grabbed my bat and shot up to investigate the howl was coming from a wheat field nearby. I peeked my head out of the trees and scanned the field for threats then a rustling near the edge of the field caught my attention. I quickly turned around to see what it was, and then I took a painful blow to the chest. I got up and recollected myself and in front of me was a monster as tall as a basketball player. And then I saw the long extensions it had for arms and stood shook at the immense size of its fists. I was already looking for weaknesses in my opponent any flaws that would give me an advantage, and then I looked and its spindly torso and legs and had an idea. It raised its arms to strike at me again and at that moment I slid under it and smashed the back of its knees. I got up and struck my bat against its torso and a loud crack rang through the field as its thick ribs snapped as I broke through its back I saw a huge beating heart-like organ in its chest cavity. The thing was glowing a beautiful shade of blue and suddenly I didn’t want to destroy it, but I could tell if it wasn’t destroyed the monster would not die. I smashed the heart, and it was in that moment I knew all, of the monster’s main weakness. I dashed back to camp ready to take note of my new discovery I just made, but I decided to stay and look at the monster’s body and I was glad I did because it turns out after they die their bodies decompose quick, and when thy decompose their bodies turn into a glowing blue dust the same shade as their hearts. It also appears that when they die, they leave a pheromone which attracts all nearby creatures within a few meters. Because when I looked from the body another monster was sniffing the ground where the previous monster died. Luckily for me it was the size of a cat, so it was an easy kill and I made sure to dump the dust into the stream so it would hopefully wash away the pheromones so no more incidents like this happen. After washing up in the stream I ate some canned food and headed to bed praying that I could get some sleep this time. In the morning I decided I wanted extra protection against the monsters, so I gathered some mud and started forming mud bricks. Then I added pebbles and laid them into a wall that surrounded my camp and since the wall was still wet, I started to stick sharpened sticks into it for even more safety. After this I began to upgrade my shelter because I knew if I was going to survive this, I was going to need more than a few logs and moss. The first thing I changed was the position of the logs, so I had sort of a miniature log cabin then I added some mud to the outside, so it then looked like adobe slightly. After this was done, I started to camouflage my base to match the surroundings, but I didn’t get to finish I was only halfway done when the sun started to set so I went and moved all my things to the upgraded base and slept. A few days pass until I completely, finish camouflaging the base all the way, and I also added alternative entrances and exits just in case a monster breaks in. Once that is done, I begin to build spiked pitfalls around my base and since my base was on an incline in the forest, I made some rolling log traps. A few days later I was ready to go out and scavenge as supplies were running low, all I needed was some motivation and I was ready, the next day I headed out towards a small shack I’ve been eyeing up for a while now. And soon enough the walk to the shack began it was a long walk and once I got there, I didn’t regret it because it was chock full of non-perishables and all kinds of gardening tools and seeds. I began to fill my backpack and as I was about to head out, I saw a big sack on the floor of the other room and next to it was a monster. Then I realized what it was it was an egg sac, and I began to think since now they were reproducing it would be hard to keep them away for long. I decided to kill the mother in her sleep then smash the eggs. I also picked up some winter clothes I found under the egg sac. After that I made sure to leave swiftly before any monsters came and smelled the mother’s pheromones. Once I was at camp, I saw some planes in the sky and I thought I was being rescued but it turns out it was just dropping bombs on the town. I tried signaling them, but they didn’t see me. But I wasn’t too worried because I knew that I could survive out here anyway. For the next few days, I began to occupy myself by crafting furniture and other household things like stool and tables. I got bored of this very quick since my whole base now as fully furnished so I moved on the monster hunting because some of the monsters had parts of their bodies that I could use for bedding and upgrading my furniture. My first challenge was to make a blanket and a bed, so this took me about two months. But it was worth it because monster fur is so soft. Soon enough I had an entire base full of fully decked out furniture after this period of boredom I decided to plant the seeds of the plants I found at the shack. Then the seasons shifted, and things got harder it took way longer to find food and I now have, to wear extra layers and plant my crops in a makeshift greenhouse. But I’m mainly planting root vegetables now which helps a little but not much. I’ve been injuring myself a lot lately because of these long treks for resources so now I have, to add med-kits to my list for things to scavenge. I will be so excited when spring comes then I