Juicy July day 20: Hide (Patreon)

(alternative title: breach)

Hide. Don’t run

That thing...it’s faster than us. It’s faster than anything. If it sees you....it will get you. And you’ll end up like everyone else. I don’t know where this thing came from. This...beast it’s not like any animal I’ve ever seen. No...not a beast...this is a demon, clawing it’s way from the grim depths of hell. It’s come to claim us.

Stay still. Breath quietly.

I don’t think...I don’t think it sees well. It could only hear it’s way around. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to follow for tricks. I saw one of the ships passengers throwing a coin...it only came to him, not where the coin landed. It took him. God...it’s taken so many. I can still hear all their groaning...they aren’t dead. Yet. I dread whatever this things plans for us.

It’s coming to me

I knew I was taking a risk broadcasting my warnings...but if I save someone else...then I’ve succeeded as a captain. Use this time...if it’s coming for me you can go. Get to the escape pods. Just walk as quietly as you can...and hide if you hear anything. Stay alive.

Oh god...

I can see it on the cameras.  It looks like...an animal skeleton. But it’s spine turns and moves...almost like a snake. And it’s ribs... It’s arms...holding a weird blue... stomach? No....egg sack. Oh god...it’s turning us into incubators. That’s why everyone’s alive... Everyone needs to run. I am going to make the most noise I can possible.

Just promise to come back and save me.

If I’m still alive...don’t leave me here for long. Get military ...get mercenaries. Get people with big fucking guns. Just don’t let me be that things...toy. I can’t...I can’t stand to look at it . But I can hear it scraping at my door.  I’m going to fight best I can...and in going to enable emergency alarms. It might be enough to distract it.

RUN. RUN NOW. ALARMS ARE ON

In the deck of the ship, the captain fired his gun into the grim creatures body yet it didn’t seem to affect it. One of its long thin arms slapped the pistol away before grabbing the Capitan. In one instant , the things horrid tail stuck into the captain’s  navel.. immediately he felt something pump into his body. His stomach growing as it did. The captain grabbed the tail, trying desperately to pull it from his body. Yet it only made the beast pump faster , as it used the tail to pull him into its rib like arms. It grabbed his wrists, ankles and waist , holding him firmly as it pumped him full.

His belly kept growing , filling with the creatures blue ooze. The captain tried to keep fighting , but he couldn’t . He could barely move. As his stomach grew, he felt more and more sick. Something travelled up his throat as his bulging belly overfilled. He tasted it as it oozed over his tongue. Blueberry juice? What the hell was this thing doing to him.  It scurried from the deck , dragging the swollen man under its slim body.

Through the halls of his ship, The captain watched as he was dragged through , his stomach getting pumped fuller and fuller. His clothes ripping as he filled them. That was when he was tossed into a the storage room, now the beasts chamber. His ears where filled with the sounds of groaning. Looking and round he saw dozens of...ten foot tall and round dark blue spheres. It made the captain wince, and his stomach grumbled.

“Oh fuck...that’s...what’s going to happen to me.”  He mumbled as his body burbled grimly. What was within him was beginning to grow more. All around his body this time it just his belly. His arms...his legs...he was growing rapidly. Despite the grim situation, the captain was only glad that he  gave anyone else time to escape. He quickly became another berry along with everyone else.

Thankfully, hundreds escaped under the cover of the alarms. Including one ... Mekitsu.