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hard. A
sense of dread ran down the full length of my spine, as a hollow
sensation filled my stomach. There was something behind us. It was a
blood creature, but this one was different to anything I had seen
before. It was big. It was bigger than bigger. The thing had to be
the size of a double-decker hover bus. It ran on all fours. The legs
were the kind you would expect to see on an elephant, but the face
was that of a skinned great white shark. Seven dangerous looking
horns protruded out of its long skull. The alien beast was closing
down on us fast. It had already gained a fair distance on us.
    ‘ You
might want to put your foot down,’ said Fiona.
    ‘ I
can’t go any faster than this,’ yelled Clay.
    ‘ Then
we may be fucked,’ she replied.
    ‘ Open
fire!’ I told Robbie.
    His
gun thundered loudly from the hatch above. I could see the impacts
cutting through the creature’s mighty body, but still it
charged after us. Didn’t these things feel pain? I used the
back of my seat to support my bolt rifle and fired out through the
back window, blowing glass out onto the ground behind us. Fiona
opened fire with her sub-machine gun. We both knew that our weapons
wouldn’t slow this thing down for a second, but it felt better
to do something. A few seconds went by and already I had to re-load.
    The
creature roared like a lion.
    It
had caught up.
    I
watched in shocked silence, as the thing lifted its sledge hammer
shaped head and then swung it down towards us. The back of the armour
vehicle shook heavily, as the creature crashed into us. Fiona grabbed
Robbie by the feet and tugged the young man down into the vehicle. It
was good timing. Fangs, the size of a grown man’s leg, pieced
the armoured roof. With a single bite the creature ripped the rear
half of the roof away.
    Clay
turned off to the right hand side.
    Driving
between rocks and old tree stumps.
    The
creature smashed its skull straight through a rock as if it wasn’t
there.
    The
vehicle was thrown left and right, as he zigzagged across the
difficult terrain.
    ‘ We
are almost there,’ said Rose.
    I
pulled a grenade from my belt and pulled the pin.
    ‘ One,
two, three...’ I tossed it out the back of the armoured car.
    The
grenade bounced once and rolled beneath the alien monster. The
explosion blew its front legs off at the knee joint. It landed face
fist into the black ash that covered the landscape and bounced
dramatically, rolling several times, before sliding back first into a
collection of rocks. I knew it wasn’t over, but at least that
brought us a little more time.
    ‘ There
it is,’ said Clay.
    I
turned my attention to the front of the vehicle.
    A
long flat building was coming into view. It looked like it had taken
quite a battering from the bullet holes and burn marks across the
outer wall. More of the creatures were gathered around the building.
I could see hundreds of them on the roof. They were slamming their
hands down, biting with their fangs and clawing the metal walls, but
they didn’t seem to be having any luck and getting through.
    Suddenly,
a clawed hand smashed through the windscreen and slashed Clay’s
face.
    He
screamed in pain and cradled his eyes.
    Rose
grabbed the steering wheel, as the car swerved dangerously.
    A
second hand smashed through the windscreen and tried to grab Rose.
    I
turned my bolt rifle to what was left of the roof and fired up in the
hope of hitting the bastard.
    ‘ Get
ready,’ said Rose, ‘this isn’t going to be pretty.’
    A
garage door slid vertically down, as we smashed through the crowd of
creatures. Unconsciously, I pulled the seatbelt across me and clipped
it into the seat. The armoured car tore into the long garage at
speed. The moment we were inside, the garage door slammed shut. The
beast on top of the car continued to reach into the front of the
vehicle. Its claws were aiming for Rose’s face. She hit the
brakes. The car skidded. The wheels screeched in protest. We slammed
straight into the