The Life of an Abomination

It was a dark and stormy night. Around three a.m. previously. Sylba was screaming bloody murder in her cell. She had arrived just days before to the institute called Haunted Pines. The nurses had discovered through their intake blood work that the young woman was pregnant. Four weeks, exactly. However, due to Sylba's desire to fight and her constant rage, they co fined her to an isolation room with padded walls for the safety of both the mother and child.

A handful of techs and a single nurse ran towards Sylba's room down the long hallway. Lightning flashed threatening to take the power along with it. Finally reaching the door, the tech in charge under the nurse reached out and grasped the doorknob. As he began to turn it, the power went off. A click was heard as everything went black. One of the techs in the back gasped while the one in front sighed. He had planned ahead.

"Flashlights, everyone. Let's move," he instructed. The other techs and the nurse nod their head before pulling out their lights. Flipping the lights on one by one, the tech, Dave, waited so the team could move as one. The fellow in the back, Jason, finally turned on his flashlight before almost dropping it. Twice.

Dave gave another sigh. He then grasped the door hard and pulled it slowly open. They had been warned. She was strong and very aggressive. They were to be extremely careful. Their chain link suits were supposed to protect them. Sylba was known to be a biter with her aggression.

As the heavy door opened with a groan, the louder had now become louder. As Dave took the first step into the completely darkened room, the screaming was silenced. Shivers ran up the men’s arms as they readied themselves for the task at hand. Find what was going on with this crazy girl.

Flipping their flashlights about the room, they now noticed Sylba was gone. Completely gone. The men entered the room fully, backs to the door attempting to find where the girl had gone to. Her door was locked. No escape. No way in or out unless the door was opened by a key and a button push by computer via radio call. Since the lights were out, the key was the only way. Dave had the only key that night. He was also nervous as hell in this room. Something didn’t seem right.

One technician flashed his light at the floor and immediately screamed. There was a small puddle of blood there and his shoe was in it. As the light shined down on it, he noticed there were drops falling down on top of the shoe now. Drip here. Drop there. The man gulped. He knew he had to look up at the ceiling. He just did not want to. Lifting his head, he felt the blood drip onto his left ear. Flashing his light into the rafters just above the ten foot level, he spotted a pair of glowing red eyes.

The man screamed again. By this time, Dave and the other crewmates have moved towards the screaming man. They looked up, shining their lights as well. Utter chaos began as the creature from the rafters growled. The man began to run towards the door. The creature was much faster. It jumped down on top of the man's back. Biting at the man’s neck, the creature dug it’s nails into the man's shoulders. The man tried to shake the creature free, however it dug deeper at him. The creature was only a foot tall.

How was this small creature so powerful? It looked like a child, but the features were deformed. Its ears were brought up to a tip like how an elves ears would look in a storybook. Its nose had an odd appearance, though mostly looked human. Fingertips were slightly pointed like an animal's claws would be. Easy for ripping and tearing the flesh of its prey to devour. Then the hair. Its hair was long and stringy as if never washed or combed a day in her life.

Dave and the other two men tried to pull the creature off their crewmate but it didn’t help. The creature had latched and was feeding. It acted like a vampire at first. Drinking the man's blood. As soon as the blood flow stopped and the guy was dead, he dropped to the floor and the creature began biting. Ripping the flesh in big hunks off the bones, the creature ate. The men eyeballed the creature as it seemed to age in front of their eyes. Going from a small toddler to a young girl. She looked almost seven or eight in age now. It was also obvious she was a female.