The Beast.

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Luke Hutchinson

Course Work: Short Story

The Beast

They entered the underground place only known as ‘the hives’. A huge hall filled with discarded material to the ceiling. They made there way though the dormant hall. At one end lay a body, they could tell he was dead by the blank stare of his eyes. He removed the I.D. card from the blood stained chest of the dead guard. He opened the large irons doors which where embedded with the company logo. Though what seemed to be thousands of corridors, which where stained with blood of the victims of the beast.

They came across what was another hall this time though, it had large tanks. Each tank had its own I.D. number and viewing window. Upon entrance to the room it was marked “dinning 02” above the door. But inside was no dinning area but a mass cloning plant.

A door in the corner was pierced with bullet holes; they entered the room to what was the torso of a mutilated being. Around the corner was an injured man who was laying against the bullet covered wall it was more like a target for guns. The man was dressed in a complete SAS suite. A comrade of his was kneeling over and seemed to be putting a large amount of pressure on the man’s leg.

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The two ran over to help the injured and his partner, the four of them made there way back across the research facilities. She looked into the holding cell of one mutated beast, only to see wires from all directions of the tank placed into the creatures back it was like a premature baby in its incubator. On descending away from the tank she knocked against the control panel, which now only displayed ‘Wake’. A massive release of gas hissed around the whole hall.

The cell door slowly opens to reveal the beast’s true form. An over-sized lizard like ...

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