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car.  A couple minutes later he walked back inside complaining his car wouldn’t start.
    “Miguel, make sure there is plenty of gasoline in the generator,” the waitress instructed.
    “Yes, Barbara.” 
    Miguel grabbed the gas can from the closet in the storage room and walked out the back door of the diner toward the generator.  The generator was humming.  He put the gas can down and stared at the panel on the generator.  As he was bending down to get a closer look, he could hear something breathing heavily from behind him.  As he turned around, the alien creature grabbed the top of his head and ripped his face off.  It quickly ripped open his skull, pulled out his brain and then ripped the side of the generator open with one of its claws.    
    The diner went dark.
    “Not again,” Alice said nervously.
    The creature walked past the front of the diner holding all four of the brains and disappeared into the forest.
    “What the hell was that?”  Tara watched as the creature disappeared.  “We better get out of here.”
    “Whatever that thing was, it was huge,” Dean pointed out.
    The waitress screamed loudly as she found Miguel’s body outside.
    “Wait here,” Dean ordered as he ran through the kitchen to see what had transpired.  The waitress was standing by the body screaming hysterically.  Dean grabbed her shoulders and led her back into the diner, trying to calm her down.
    Alice and Tara rushed over to Dean as he helped the waitress sit down on one of the stools.  She tried to regain her composure, but the image of Miguel was burned into her mind. 
    “Blood everywhere,” she said hysterically.
    “You’re safe now,” Dean assured her.
    “Am I?” 
    Dean looked at Alice and Tara with a concerned look on his face signaling to them they were all in danger.  A woman screamed as the creature was standing outside one of the diner’s windows.  The creature smashed the window inward, grabbed the woman by the throat and pulled her through the window.  Her husband grabbed on to her legs, and then fell backward holding her lower torso after losing a tug of war with the creature who held on to her tightly until her body ripped in half.
    Alice pulled the gun out of her right cowboy boot and fired a couple rounds at it.  The creature quickly dashed away from the diner and into the forest.
    “We better find a place to hide away from here,” Tara suggested.
    “My hotel is down the road in walking distance,” Dean said.
    “If we’re lucky, we’ll find a car there that is working.”  Alice led them out of the diner ready to fire another round into the creature if they encountered it.
    As they followed the road leading in the opposite direction of the forest, they spotted a car that had crashed into a tree. The driver had been flung halfway through the windshield.  His head was ripped open with his brain missing.
    “Where is his brain?”  Tara asked disgusted.
    “When I saw it walk past the diner, it was holding four brains,” Alice said.
    Tara screamed as she saw the creature rushing toward them.
    Alice shot the remaining bullets at the creature’s head.  It fell forward landing in front of them.  Alice slammed her boots on its head repeatedly until its greenish blood was gushing everywhere.  “That’s what you get for messing with a Russian!”
    From the distance they could see a large fireball rise above the trees.  It hovered in midair for several seconds before it began to head in their direction.
    “Run!”  Alice shouted, running for the hotel.
    The fireball flew past them and crashed into the hotel obliterating it. They stopped running and watched as a creature, twice the size as the one they just killed, walked out of the fiery blaze.  It looked over at them and screamed out so loudly they had to cover their ears.  It slowly moved toward them limping.
    “I think it’s hurt,” Dean pointed out.
    “What do we do?”  Tara asked.
    “We run back toward the