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the waist.  Buddy's arms reached out for anything to grab onto, scratching at the pavement as he was pulled into the air.  His body moved at high speed directly toward the beast's face.  He was stopped in front of its empty eyes.  It inspected him with intense curiosity.
    “Don't worry Buddy,” he heard being yelled from the ground.  “I'll save you!”  He looked down and could just make out Ryan tearing his jacket off and letting it fall behind him.  The silver item Buddy caught a glimpse of earlier covered most of his body and glowed with a red light. 
    Ryan ran toward the beast. 
    The beast lifted his leg and stomped down on Buddy's new, annoying, friend.  Buddy gasped, several people from the restaurant, who had now come outside to see the action, screamed.
    “That's it, you ugly son-of-a-bitch.”  Buddy pushed against the tentacle, which was keeping his arms pinned to his side.  He was unable to overwhelm the monster's grip. 
    “Let go of me!”  he yelled.  Buddy looked into the giant eye directly in front of his face and saw nothing but his own reflection. The eyes showed no emotion, only a darkened, empty mirror of the world in front of it.  Buddy felt helpless. 
    Then Buddy noticed something else reflecting on the surface of the monster's eye.  It was barely visible.  Buddy looked over his shoulder to see another fireball aimed directly at him.  His tentacled friend tightened its grip.
    Buddy looked down and saw the monster's leg swinging up into the air, revealing an unharmed Ryan. 
    “That all you got?” Ryan screamed.  The monster roared as Ryan jumped into the air, plowing into its chest. 
    The monster was knocked off balance, loosening its grip on Buddy as it fell.  Buddy slipped out of his tentacled prison and fell to the ground, bouncing off the body of the beast as he tumbled the five stories to the street.  As his body slammed against the asphalt, he felt the ground tremble as it had just minutes before. 
    The monster shrieked in agony.  Windows shattered, buildings shook.  The sound of a giant balloon bursting filled the air, followed by the noise of dozens of large wet things slapping against the ground. 
    Buddy jumped to his feet and ran from the beast as fast as he could.  Ryan appeared at his side, grabbing his hand and pulling him away faster.  Buddy could hear him yelling something, but couldn't make it out.  He stumbled with every step.  He knew he needed to distance himself as much as possible before the dust settled.  His eyes stung with the debris which hung in the air. 
    Ryan stopped pulling and Buddy decided they were probably safe enough for the moment and stopped as well, bending over in pain, trying to catch his breath. 
    He heard a human-sounding scream coming from somewhere beneath where the beast had stood.  The scream filled the air as though the person it belonged to was being tortured in ways never before conceived by mankind. 
    Before Buddy fully registered what the sound meant, he found himself heading in its direction.  He heard Ryan yelling something and once again couldn't make it out.  He didn't care.  His ears were ringing, but he was certain he could hear something, someone, screaming and something within him said he had to save that person. 
    He could no longer make out the beast through the cloud of dust and debris, but he knew he must have been directly beneath it as he arrived at the location of the screams.  He made out the figure of a man sprawled out on the ground.  Although Buddy's body was throbbing with pain and faltering under its exhaustion, he ran to the man's side. 
    Buddy leaned down near the man and saw he was completely naked.  In one quick motion Buddy took off his coat, wrapped it around the man, picked him up, and ran as fast as he could.  He knew the air would clear soon and his new-found nemesis, as well as whatever else had fallen from the sky, would be able to latch their ugly tentacles around him