Harrison
reacted fast enough to avoid being killed outright but Jackie’s claw still cut
red lines into his chest. He was not used to pain. It pulsated through his body
like ice cold electro shocks. He lost his balance when he stumbled away from
the monster, suddenly reduced to a scared child within a big body. Jackie jumped on the man that lied helplessly
on the bloody floor and bit into his neck. His spine snapped like a twig.
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Jackie licked
the blood off her teeth. It tasted good. She continued to rip more flesh off
the corpse. It was the first time she ate something that wasn’t her own flesh.
It tasted so good.
The door
opened and shortly after she heard someone make a weird sound.
‘Uhurgh!’
Jackie
turned her head towards the door. It was a guard she presumed. Within a second
he took out a gun and aimed for her head but before he could shoot something
long and red wrapped around his neck. With a snap his body fell to the floor.
She tasted sweat. It was then noticed the long red thing came out of her mouth.
It was her tongue. If her mind weren’t occupied with blood frenzy she would
have found this very disturbing, but she merely acknowledged it and dragged the
body towards herself with it and started feeding on it.
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Jackie
looked at the panicking people running through the camps of the slavers from a
hill about a mile away from it. They haven’t noticed she was already gone.
After she had finally awoken from her blood thirst she just wanted to leave. Be
alone. Have time to think. So these are the people Alice told her to be friends
with? These people are horrible. Jackie looked at the blood on her hands. As if
she was any better. She was a murderer. Worse than that, she ate those people. And she felt nothing
while doing it. Just joy. She sat down on the dusty ground. Then she cried.
Cried, because she was afraid of herself, disturbed of what she had done. Cried
because she missed Alice.
When her
tears ran dry, Jackie noticed the people in the camp had stopped running
around. They noticed she was gone. They’re probably going to look for her. She
wouldn’t like it if they found her. With the guy before her, they learned
there’s more to be afraid of than the teeth and claws. And now they know the
transparent fluid didn’t work as well on whatever they are. Jackie ran until
the white glowing ball in the sky crashed into the ground.
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She found a
place with many empty grey buildings. They had windows and doors, some had
chairs and tables in them, others had dusty shelves with food. She was hungry
so she ate some of the food and parts of the shelves too. Her teeth could chew
everything and her stomach wasn’t revolting. It didn’t even taste that bad.
OUT OF NOTHING PART 7
Jackie woke
up in a pile of clothes and other pieces of cloth she found in the abandoned
village. She felt good. She didn’t smell any strangers around and for once she
had a pretty good sleep. Light shone through the spaces of the nailed shut
window and made the dust in the air visible. Slowly she sat up from her
self-build bed. The room was completely empty except for a broken table in one
corner. The two big holes in the roof had allowed her to see the sky and she
liked that about the room. A closed roof made her feel imprisoned again. Now
the sky became darker again, seemingly she slept the whole day.
After
rolling around on the floor for a bit she finally stood up. There were some
clothes she didn’t use for her bed that she had put under the table in the
corner. Finally she could get out of this dirty scratchy whatever it was. She
had been wearing it since she woke up in the dark room. Looked like a dress,
similar to the one Alice wore, just much uglier. Jackie wasn’t the type to wear
a dress at all, it’s just not right. The weather was rather hot on the surface
so Jackie got herself black shorts but couldn’t resist the dark blue hoodie
even though it’s way too warm to wear that. It just felt so nice on the skin.
She also finally got proper shoes and even socks with little chicken on them.
She stuffed
as much of the rotten food into her pockets as she could and ate the furniture
for breakfast that was too big to carry. She didn’t feel weird doing that. She
actually found it pretty funny to eat a sofa. Maybe being a monster isn’t so
bad? She remembered the faces of the people she ate and felt bad for thinking
that. She was kind of cool with the claws but then it all just turned… ugly. She
shivered despite the warmth.
Jackie left
the house and walked along a road leading out of the village. She decided to go
find someone else like her to explain to her what she actually is. She didn’t
like real people but she wanted answers.
It became
dark but the moon provided enough light to see. Jackie had already eaten all of
her provisions. She just loved tasting things. She actually had to force
herself not to stop to lick the ground. So that’s why Harrison called her
Dirtlicker. Smelling the dirt had to be enough. Smelling was a lot of fun too
but not as intense as tasting.
A while
later Jackie smelled something new. It smelled like something alive. She
remembered the taste of human flesh. Something slowly crawled out of the back
of her mind. Hunger. She ran now, following the smell. After climbing a hill
she saw a town. Colorful lights lit the place. Humans everywhere. Jackie licked
her lips.
“…NO!”, she
screamed. “I will not… kill anyone else.”
She fought
back the hunger. These people hadn’t done anything to her. She won’t attack
them. She doesn’t have to be a monster. When she was sure she had the urge
under control she proceeded into the town.
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