From Beneath

What if humanity faced an ungodly threat, one that could destroy everything we have ever known and loved. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a horror story that features exactly that!

From beneath the ocean. That is where it came. The big, ugly, monstrous thing that no words can truly describe. Only that it was incomprehensible, a giant alien thing with floating limbs, covered in teeth or fangs, sharp and pointy of a colour nobody thought was even possible. It is impossible to truly describe this mysterious beast, only that it was horrifying to witness, making your eyes bleed upon the mere sight of it. It was fear incarnate, something that installed a sense of panic and immediate unease within those that gazed upon this god-like being of unfathomable proportions. It did not resemble any man or humanoid on earth, the thing looked nothing like the wild imaginations of what aliens from space may look like. Somehow it was far more twisted and grotesque than even the most horrifying movie monsters to ever grace the silver screen. It had no resemblance to animals either, not even a sea creature or bird, it looked nothing like a horse, cat, dog, deer or goat. The thing from beneath was unlike anything you could possibly imagine. Your mind would melt upon seeing such horror, some fainted in the streets of New York when it rose above the earth, crashing vehicles into each other, children, elderly and those of fragile health dropped dead in the streets. Some had heart attacks and strokes the moment they saw it. This nightmarish thing, neither alive or dead, but some supernatural spirit in-between, it was the size of earth itself. It loomed over us all, like a globe wide space ship, looking down at us without eyes. Nobody on earth could stand the sight of it, if you didn't faint or die; you'd lose your mind and begin screaming in frantic terror, running for your life into the nearest building, all sanity leaving you like a bird fleeing from its nest. In one single day, the human race that took billions of years to evolve, to build cities, luxury and futuristic technology all came crumbling down. Nobody could think straight anymore, many committed suicide, those that lived forgot how to be civilised. They stopped speaking English, French, German, Korean, Chinese, every human language altogether. The human mind couldn't remember such things, it was far too traumatised and afraid to speak a word in case the thing from beneath, that now loomed over earth, struck them with lightning or something far worse and unthinkable. The last of humanity fled underground, every last one of us broken mentally and regressed to that of an ape. Our bodies did not change, but our minds were never the same. The monster from beneath hovered over earth for a week, making sure everything that gazed up at it was fried mentally and physically. Nobody saw this, but eventually it flew off, into space! Never to be seen or heard of again. A thousand years later, what looked like cave men would resurface onto the planet earth, left to discover ancient relics of the past that was now long forgotten. Gone was humanity's superior intellect, we had devolved into wild animals that ate hay and grass, not one of us speaking a human language ever again, not even a single letter. For some reason, none of the future humans could understand why they feared the sky, as if still remembering their ancestors fears of the creature from beneath that destroyed everything they knew. The new humans soon abandoned the surface of earth because of this instinctual fear, instead returning to the underground caves and nests they had made, just like the worms they were.