Jump Scared

"Just a cat." The growling had turned out to be a little cat, had a tag on it naming him "Mr. Sniffles" I felt bad for whoever had named this cat because clearly they were dead and Mr. Sniffles was still very much alive. Unless he had somehow become infused with demonic energy and killed everyone in the building, which while hilarious would be horrible (cats are vicious animals for their size, imagine one with real power? I shudder at the though). Mr. Sniffles sniffed Alisa and myself and then exited the building, his one shinning moment in life already accomplished. I turned to Alisa with a shrug and she pointed her weapon at me.

"Already betraying me?"

"Get down you stupid shit." She took up the shotgun and I ducked, the creature that had stalked up behind me. The creature was some kind of mass with claws, and it was not alone behind the one Alisa had shotgunned down were three more. I turned and fired with the hand and Alisa racked another round into her shotgun and also fired, the creatures went down. Mine was incinerated of course, but the ones Alisa killed remained, which let us at least try and puzzle out what in gods name they are. They appeared to just be claws with a vague body shape and eyes. They could be killed, they bled black and screeched when hit with bullets. I assumed these were just the foot soldiers of whatever was below and I wasn't wrong (because of course it can never just be regular claw monsters!)

"Well at least we know what left the claw marks."

"You think there are more?"

"Of course there are more, these things clearly didn't wipe out an entire building." Alisa shrugged at me and we continued deeper into the building, or well we would have had we had some kind of light source to do so.

"You didn't bring a flash light?"

"No I didn't bring a flash light, I can light things on fire with my mind lady, I don't bring flash lights anywhere."

"Ok did you bring something to set up a torch?"

"No." Alisa sighed at me and we spent the next several hours looking for a flash light. Look mistakes were made is all I"m saying. Anyway we eventually found a light source and continued on, so it was all good in the end! Well all good being relative because of how awful everything was.