Chapter 10 - into the lair of the devil

In the darkness they follow this creature, deeper into hands of hades, not knowing what to expect heaven or hell, a way out or sudden doom, the sounds the creature makes as it walks feet pounding louder than they should, purring flowing down the spine of the marines, they can not makes move not yet until the time it right they have to wait, wait until the perfect shot is there in their view, they do not want to harm the comrade jay and make rain of acid burn threw him.

Jenson and is team keep quiet, while following this creature staying back a safe distance, making sure not to alert, the creature, they makes some turns left and right, to them now it seems they are not heading to an exit, the air slowly getting harder to breathe, but still breathable, could be the fear inside of them making it hard to breathe, there hearts pumping a mile an hour, like a double kick on a drum kit.

As they walk through these caves they are in following the creature, the wall slowly start getting more and more organic, looking stuff attached to it, Jenson, looks at Beth with a look of concern, then he looks to Javier and O'roro, with the same look, he is now wondering what they are walking into, the creature had to be taking jay somewhere, Philip was behind the group, looking at the walls curiously as he walked behind the group not stopping though so not to be left behind, that would be the last thing anyone would want in a place like this.

They continue walking it seems like forever that they have followed the creature, darkness never leaving, only getting worse, the team can barely use there torches now, it is too dark and could alert this alien, to them make it alert that they are following them.

As they walk the infestation on the wall is getting worse then they see, something on the wall, attached to it like it was in a cocoon, Jenson kept an eye up ahead, didn't take his eyes from the direction of the alien, while beth and Philip looked at the cocooned thing on the wall.

" holy shit" Philip whispered
"Another alien creature, but this one looks completely different to those other ones, it looks kind of like a hairless monkey with four arms"
Philip looked down to its chest and moved back in fright as he seen the alien monkeys chest burst open from the inside,
"Something came out of it" Beth said looking into the hole on the monkey,
"I bet it's one of those alien creatures running around hunting us down" O'roro replied in a whisper,
" no doubt " replied Philip " I haven't seen anything like this"
"I don't think anyone has Philip " Javier replied whispering as well not to alert the alien creature up ahead,
" I have to take a sample" Beth said grabbing her scraper, and test tube,
She reached inside the hole and scraped some tissue sample from the monkey alien and put it inside the test tube, then placed it away in her bag.

"We have to keep moving" Jenson replied " we don't want to fall to far behind from this creature if we are going to save jay,
"I got what I need" Beth replied whispering
The rest of the team nodded and they kept moving.

As they got further and further into the maze, there were more and more of these alien monkeys cocooned to the walls, with the same burst chest,
"There must be heaps of those first aliens running around here hiding and lurking into the darkness, waiting for prey like us to walk by" O'roro said whispering while walking along side Philip at the back of the group,
" with all the aliens we have seen who knows what came out of these things"
Philip replies,
"Or worse what did the rest of the other alien Creatures come from, they don't all look the same, maybe depending on species is what they look like, just throwing that out there I could be wrong".

" or you could be horribly right " O'roro replied, " how many more of these things are in here",
Jenson stopped the group,
" it's stopped " Jenson said looking ahead into the darkness
and pointing into the direction of the big lurking alien, you could still hear it's spine curdling purr in the distance,
" what's it doing" asked O'roro,
" im not sure" replied Jenson
As they were watching the alien creature from the distance, in the brief light that they had they could see the alien, look around, left to right it's tail swinging from side to side like a cat, it looks down at jay and lifts him up, by his arms, then pushes him into the wall, it starts covering him in the organic material the wall is covered with cocooning him into the wall like the alien monkeys had been.

" this might be our chance to get jay and get the hell out of here" whispered Javier,
" just wait " replied Jenson, don't get to hesitant,
" but that thing will kill him corporal"
" but if we go out there now Javier we could get us all killed, I'm not gonna risk our lives if we don't have to, I will do everything I can to save him, but I'm not gonna lose anyone else in the progress"
" he shouldn't of ran off" Beth said whispering to them,
" no the idiot should have stayed with the group" O'roro whispered

The alien finished cocooning jay to the wall then stalked away out of sight,
" where the hell did it go" O'roro said
" I'm not sure" replied Jenson,
" then let's go get him now and go " Javier said,
"No wait, it could be back Any second now" Jenson said looking from the distance to where the creature had placed jay on the wall,
"We can't just leave him there corporal" Javier said getting rushed now,
" I hate to say this Javier but it's either him or us, I would expect the same from you guys if that was me there in jays place, I wouldn't want you risking your life's for me if one of those aliens was around the area",
Javier settled down a little coming to his senses, if they have a chance to save they will, but they will have to make the hard choice, of whether or not to save him, or bide them some time, if there's no chance in saving him.

" so we just gonna let him be feasted upon by that thing while we sit back and watch" Javier said getting annoyed again
" if it was going to feast on him it would of done that before it decided to drag his ass around behind it" Jenson replied calmly still watching in jays direction,
"It's coming back" O'roro said " and it's carrying something?"
"It looks like an ...egg?"

The alien placed the egg down in front of jay and stalked away back in the direction it had gotten the egg,
" wait a minute" O'roro said
The egg started opening from the top the flaps unfold silently,
"What the fuck" Javier said,
In the distance in front of them, they heard a cry for help, it was very faint but through the darkness, you could hear it, it called again, a little louder this time,
"That's jay" O'roro said quietly
Jays voice echoed down the black tunnels, he got louder and louder, as he got louder the team could see something making its way out of the egg, bony legs like sticks from a tree branch are scattering there way out of the top of the egg, after a few seconds the creature could be seen emerged on top of the egg, it two front legs in attack position like a spider ready to bite, with its fangs ready.

Jay went from a cry for help to a scream of desperation, he was struggling to break free, while screaming the spider like creature looked like it was just staring at him, waiting for the right time to attack,
"Fuck it man, I'm going in" Javier said get up and walking towards jay screaming help,
" fuck Javier wait" Jenson said getting up following him,the rest of the team stayed back.

Jenson made his way up to Javier his pulse rifle ready in hand, jay still screaming Javier hurried himself to try and prevent anything bad to happen, he had a choice right now looking at the spider like creature staring at jay, what was it waiting for Javier thinks, jay screaming in terror from this spider like creature staring at him, all of a sudden it pounces shot up like it was on a spring, legs spread evenly in the air, it latches it self around jays face, it's long tail wrapped around his neck, jays head swing hard around trying to swing the spider thing off his face, but it wasn't working, it was locked in place, you could still hear jays muffled screams underneath the creature.

Javier ran towards jay and screams "NO!!" Holding his pulse rifle up,
"Stop" Jenson yells " you will alert the other alien
"Fuck it I have had enough, I'm gonna kill these fucking things"
Javier points his pulse rifle at jays head ready to fire, Jenson stops,
" you will kill him" Jenson says pushing Javiers gun down,
"He's already dead with that thing attached to his face, that thing is probably sucking him dry right now" Javier replied
" your probably right but you shoot that thing right now, and that alien comes back we are all fucked".

Javier just stares at Jenson for a minute thinking about what the corporal just said,
" all we can do now is cut him down and hope he survives what ever this thing is attached to his face, because if that spider thing has the same blood as the rest he is dead anyway even if we try cutting him out"
" what if we try pulling the thing off" Philip asked walking up behind them,
" look at the tail" Jenson said pointing at jays neck," that thing has a tight grip if we try anything it will most likely strangle him to death, that's why I say we cut him down and leave him, we can only hope now"

Javier nods then grabs out his knife, he starts cutting into the organic material holding jay on the wall, Jenson does the same, they both start cutting.
Jay comes loose and falls to the floor with a thud, Javier rolls him onto his back, and whispers " sorry man",
O'roro walks up behind them and notices something on the walls ahead of them, not dead or attached to the walls it was moving slowly,
"Guys sorry to break this up but we got to go...and I mean now" O'roro says alert, now strong enough to hold her pulse rifle a little,
Jenson and Javier look in the same direction as O'roro, and see something moving as well, only a few they were hard to see though what it was being dark, and the walls all looking the same covered in the organic material.

A slight growl occurred from the walls, and the shuffling got more intense, what ever was on the walls wanted them, and wants them now,
"Move we got to go" Jenson said turning on his flash light and as he did the light shown on the wall, ahead of them, and revealed one of the creatures,
" it's one of those things from the pilots room" .

The creature opened its mouth and squealed like before, it wrenched through Jenson and his team the feeling of fear worse than before knowing that they are in a cave with only one direction to run, but what's at the end of the road, safety or death.

Running threw the caves neverending this moment seemed very similar to Jenson, it remind him of his nightmares, although nightmares and dreams can be unclear and hard to remember sometimes, he doesn't remember what was chasing him in his dreams this felt exactly the same, the fear, the pounding of the heart, his heavy breathing keeping him from falling over, all he can think about at this moment is what he dreams about..his daughter, it's what keeps him running, surviving as best he can, he wants to hold her one last time, kiss her goodnight and all the things a father would want to do with his daughter, but these things wanted to take him away from that, take the father from his daughter, but Jenson will fight till his last breathe, until he sees his daughter again, he has done it once before he will always do it again.

Eyes going blurry, caves walls closing in, the sound of m41-a pulse rifle bullets pouncing off the walls, piercing his ear drums as he and his team runs for their lives, he turns around to look behind him and only sees death, Javier and O'roro shooting the creatures from the pilots room coming from the walls, the ceiling the floor, they just keep coming like last time, the bullets pierce the creatures bodies, leaving trails of smoke from the acid hitting the walls and floors, flash light going all over the place as they run.

Up ahead an opening, Jenson turns around and yells,
"There's a clearing ahead keep running we are nearly there"
" about fucking time there's an opening" yells back O'roro firing her pulse rifle,
As Jenson turns around back to the direction he is running a creature jumps on him, and makes him fall to the floor, the creature snapping at his face, and lowering its second jaw, Jenson fights it in a struggle to get it off of him, he punches it on the side of the head, it flinches, and turns back continuing snapping, he leans the creature back far enough, pulls his legs up to his chest and boots it away against the wall behind it.

Jenson quick grabs his colt, and fires shooting it twice in the chest and one in the head, the creature was down, it nearly had him, it nearly ripped him to pieces, beth runs up to Jenson and reachs out her hand,
" take my hand " she yells,
Everything is slowed down to Jenson like he got knocked out, he reached out his hand and grabbed Beth's, she pulled him to his feet,
"On your feet soldier" she yelled pulling him up,
Javier and O'roro holding back the other creatures coming for them, only 10 metres from the opening they could hold the creatures off there give them a fighting chance to survive.

They ran for there lives and as they came through the opening, they all turned around and fired at the entrance, short controlled bursts, since ammo is now running scarce,
" wait look" Jenson said ceasing fire,
The rest stopped but stayed ready to continue to shoot,
"They've stopped" O'roro said keeping her pulse rifle ready.

The creatures stare at them from the darkness they have just escaped, growling lowly, swaying side to side, these creatures wanted there blood, but today is not there day, one of them screeched and then they all disappeared, it like something had frightened them away, something must scare them inside this open cave, 'but what could scare things like that' Jenson wondered, staring at the opening the team was frightened why did they run away after all that, the team turned and looked at each other,
" what the hell just happened" O'roro said
" I don't know" replied jenson "they just left"
Javier turned to them and said,
"They wouldn't just leave they.."
"Javier " Jenson said looking at Javier In The darkness

The team all watching Javier fall to silence, he then screams a blood curdling scream, as a sharp tail rips threw from his back all the way out of his chest, blood is pouring from were the tail had pierced him, screaming as the tail lifted him into the air,
"Javier!!!" Jenson screams as the young man is ripped in half in front of there eyes, Javiers blood and gore landed all around them, on the walls, the floor, and on them.

In shock the team, watch as Javiers body is thrown both parts two different ways, the team just stare in fear, as a creature similar to the ones from the pilots room emerges from the shadows, it's jaw lowered, and teeth shining off of the torches from the team, but it was not the same as the other ones that were just chasing them its head went bigger than they others, more like a crown and it had a giant tail like the other alien stalking them, this was not a normal lurking alien hunting them down, chasing them for a kill, this is a real killer, this is the leader of them all, the alpha, this is where it all had started, the Queen.