The
Monster
Flash! Instantly paralyzed with fear, I
fainted, with one glimpse of the monster itself. My frozen eyes began to thaw
out, the eerie silence infected my ears. A repeated image of people I know
strangled my mind, ‘don’t go there, where the monster lurks, don’t go down
there where horror lurks,’ they had told me. I turned my head still lying on
the floor like a prisoner by one single glance at that sinister creature. Was
it a figment of my imagination?
“Hello, is anyone there?” I panicked with a
sense of infinite dread within my soul. My voice echoed, piercing my own ear; I
gasped in pain trying to cover my only working sense from my very own tenacious
sound. Where was I? A wafting odour marched up my nostrils. I scrambled to my
feet after the torture had ended. Thud! Thud! Isolated I might be, but I felt I
wasn’t alone in this dungeon. My heart racing as my senses tormented me. A
deafening scream filled the atmosphere surrounding me. I wasn’t the cause…
It came forward, I felt its dragon breath. I
reached for my flashlight with struggle. Glaring painfully bright eyes fixated
on me, I thought my fate was sealed. It had something in its mouth, a skeleton,
a human skeleton, a past victim. A roar filled the ghastly tunnel, as loud as a
meteor crash. Was this the end was it over for me? All my goals I wanted to
accomplish dripped away like my trickling sweat. “My family!” A white arena
appeared in front of me, signalling my death…
