Darkness filled the room, and slowly the creature rose from the ground. He watched the creature with it’s confused, tilted head, rise to the ceiling and expand it’s body around the walls of the communication center, staring at him with it’s blank gaze. He ran from the room the moment the darkness was near him, but not before grabbing a portable voice communicator from the communication desk.
He began to run down the hallway, tossing everything in his path behind him to try and stop the creature from getting close to him. The creature twisted, turned, and deformed and reformed itself, getting around any obstacle in front of it. Once it appeared as if he had bested the creature, he stopped for a breath of air. Suddenly, his voice communicator began to crackle…
‘This is … cue… br…”
The communication was scrambled, he couldn’t make out what was being said. He decided to try for a better position. Maybe another room had better reception. He ran towards the front of the outpost, back to where it all started. There, he reached the cafeteria, and once again a voice came through his communicator.
‘Do….y…….me”
The reception in the room was worse. It seems that the rooms where the creature resided caused an interference on the voice comms. The brighter the room, the better the reception was. Realizing this, he turned around and decided to run straight towards the exit of the outpost, but he couldn’t move.
His legs, were frozen, stuck, in a mud like substance. Then, he heard a dripping noise. It was similar to the one he had heard when he first discovered the creature. Shivers ran down his spine, and as he turned towards the noise, he saw the creature. Once again the creature stared back, with the blank gaze, a blank canvas of a face.
As he stared back at the creature he felt a cold like liquid on his feet, slowly rising up his leg, his shin, and his hips. He looked down and saw that the creature was extending itself onto his body, slowly covering every inch of him. Soon after he looked up, staring back at the creature, fear engulfed him. He could not speak a word. The darkness surrounded his eyes and soon he was completely covered…
‘Wake up,” said a soft unfamiliar voice, ‘this is only the beginning.”