Oct 20, 2006 18:37
Authors Note: this is weeks after the initial dream so excuse me if some bits are warped or wrong.
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Characters:
q Spyke (me)
q Ruth
q Liam
q Stevie
q Rosie
q Amy
q Jess
q Lyley
The order of the names does not reflect anything. (So don’t bitch about it)
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As the rest of the group clambered up the stairs Spyke stuck his obnoxious head over the tip of the stair rail and spied with his spyish eyes a large green tail flapping around the nearest corner. He noted that the floor was mottled grey with flecks of green hue contained within it, the ceiling was a bland mix of roof tiles and lights one usually finds in modern buildings and the walls were bare white with grey straight lines of supports running down symmetrically on each side, evenly spaced out.
He declined to tell the others about the tail, having barely registered it, as they clunked noisily past him.
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Amy marvelled at the uniformed look about them and expressed this verbally.
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Liam flinched at the roar that followed.
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Ruth swore.
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Jess looked with mouth and eyes agape as a huge reptile bounded round the corner dead ahead.
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Rosie’s grip on Steven increased as she watched the horrible thing barrel straight at them, turning slightly she shrieked and yanked on Steven as she fairly fell down the stairs.
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Steven turned and silently flung after her from Spyke’s line of view, Amy and Liam following them. Cursing as he suddenly leaped forward caught Ruth and Jess’s arms. Turning to the form of Lyley as he pitched forward grabbed one of Ruth’s arms and together the four of them ran at full pelt down the corridor the horrible lizard giant crashing after them over the floor. Of course this couldn’t be kept up all the time so Spyke having let go of their arms made a decision. He twirled and grabbed a hold of balcony as he skidded past it, lurched himself up and over it with a powerful heave that tore most of his arms muscles and free fell down into the cove beyond yelling “follow me!”.
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Jess guessed his intent and having no reason why should become lizard brunch jumped after him somehow making it and crippling her arms in the process adrenaline aiding her strength. As she fell she noticed herself slowing down for some reason, looking past Spyke she spotted a large vent seemingly bleeding hot air and breathed a momentary sigh of relief drowned and quenched by a full throated roar above her.
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Lyley saw the two jump and thought “bugger that” racing on ahead and skidding down a ramp marked with hazard signs deep into the bowel of the building, landing on his startled rump at the foot of a couch.
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Ruth saw Lyley route and thought it both faster easier and less suicidal so sprinted after him, coming to a halt with her legs about his small frame. Laughing with him and then being cowed by the full throated roar above them, glancing about and spotting Jess and Spyke running towards some stairs, the reason apparent as the masonry on the balcony above ruptured as the beast ran jumped or fell, depending on your point of view, straight through it.
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Lyley looked at Ruth
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Ruth looked at Lyley
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They both ran like the wind blows
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