You are sure you are about to lose your hand, but the next thing that happens surprises you. The bunny creature turns around so its head is facing towards your hand. It bumps its head against your hand as if it wants you to pet it. Still feeling weary you gently pat it on the head then gently stroke it. The fur on its head is very soft but you're still hungry. So with your other hand you reach into the fridge and grab the container filled with your favourite food. The bunny creature ignores this as it is enjoying being petted by you. You then stop petting it and go over to the couch to sit down and eat. You leave the fridge door open in case the bunny creature wants to hop out and go somewhere else. You glance over to the fridge and see that the bunny is already out and coming towards you. As it gets closer it jumps onto the couch and then settles down into your lap. You are surprised that it is not as heavy as you thought it would be. It weighs as much as a large house cat would. You continue to eat and plan your next course of action. So far none of the actions you have taken have led you to understanding what is going on. All you know so far is that you have not seen another human being other than yourself and three strange creatures so far. You finish eating and set the container down onto the coffee table in front of you and resume petting the creature in your lap. The creature startles you as it begins to purr and falls asleep. You also find yourself starting to slowly nod off as the adrenaline in your system wears off.
Hours later you are startled awake as you hear something slam into the employees break room door. You feel the creature in your lap tremble and cling to you as it was also startled awake. You begin to gently pet its head to calm it down when all of a sudden you hear another bang from the door. You slowly get up and move the creature in your lap to your shoulders so you have your arms free incase. You grab your phone from the table and put it in your jacket pocket along with its charger. You look around the break room to see if there is another way to exit the room other than the door. However, there are no other windows in the room and the only other door in the room leads to the employee bathroom. You get closer to the door and again something slams into it. Except this time the wood on the door begins to splinter in towards the room. You quickly decide that the best place for you to be would be to stand to the side of the door and not anywhere else in the room where you and your companion would be hit by any wood splinters. Then another slam comes and the cracks in the door get bigger however the door is still holding up. Yet, the next time whatever is outside slams into the door the door explodes inwards and causes splinters to fly all over the employee break room. You are lucky that where you are standing is outside the path of the door's destruction. Along with the door's destruction whatever was slamming into it bursts into the room.
You get a good look at it and see that it is a totally new creature and way different from any of the ones you have seen before. This new creature is about the same size as an average adult female. However, it does not stand on two legs and has eight legs that resemble that of a spider. The legs attach to what appear to be a large ant body and the head looks like it belongs to a bumble bee. It quickly comes to a stop after all the debris begins to settle. It looks around the room and then spots you by the door. You are freaking out as you hate any sort of insects or arachnids and before you is the largest mixture of ones you have ever seen. It begins to rush towards you and opens its mouth to reveal several sharp teeth that look like they could easily cut you and your companion open.
You quickly decide you are no longer safe in this area and rush out of the employee break room. You run into the main area of the store and head towards the front doors. Except as you get close to them you hear another creature ahead of you and you quickly come to a stop. In front of you is the owl creature that was knocked out earlier that was chasing you. You also hear behind you the new creature chasing you. The owl creature sees you and decides to rush at you. You barely have any time to think, dodge down the aisle to your right. You continue running until you get to a door that leads to the back area where they store items for the store. You go through the door and continue running, hardly paying any attention to anything around you. You run towards a double set of doors that you are sure lead to outside and run towards them. Once reaching the door you push them open and go through them and find yourself outside. You continue running as you hear both creatures crashing through the door behind you. You run around the building towards your car. You reach it, open it and get inside as the two creatures are chasing you round the corner of the building.
They pause for a second as they do not see you as you ducked down in your car carefully peering out the window. They look around trying to find you but you duck down as they glance towards your car. You quickly look back out the window of your car and find they have vacated the area. You breathe a sigh of relief and pet the bunny creature that is shaking on your shoulder to calm it down. Once you have calmed it down. You turn on your car and decide the best way to figure out what is going on is to head towards the next town/city over to see if they are experiencing the same thing you are or if you will find actual human beings.
You turn on your car and quickly glance out your window to see if the noise has attracted the attention of any of the creatures chasing you. It has not, so you back up and head towards the next town/city. As you are driving the bunny creature jumps down from your shoulders onto your lap. It curls up into a ball and snuggles into your lap and falls asleep. You continue driving out of town and pull onto the highway. You notice that there is no traffic and you are the only vehicle for miles/kilometers. You continue on for about an hour before you reach the next town.
During this time the bunny creature has been snoozing in your lap and has not woken up. Once reaching the town you notice that you can see no people walking on the sidewalks when at this time of day there should be penty people walking about. You continue into the town and stop at the nearest gas station to you. You pull into the parking lot and find it empty and devoid of cars and people. You stop in the gas station and decide to walk through the town to see if you can find anyone. You gently move the bunny creature from your lap to your shoulder. It does not wake up as you do this. You then get out of the car and begin your walk.
You first walk through the downtown area where there are lots of shops on either side of you. You notice again that there is no one about and that none of the shops you see are open. You reach an intersection and notice that the traffic lights in this town are acting weird. You notice that the traffic lights are not working. As you pass more traffic lights you see that none of them are working. You decide that this is not important and move on.
You then walk through another part of the town that is mostly industrialized. You notice that any factories that you see do not have any smoke or any byproducts coming out of their chimneys which must mean that no one is currently working there today. You however do hear another sound as you are walking by a new warehouse. It sounds like a snake hiss combined with a horse's whinny coming from inside. You do not want to know what is making that sound so you quickly make your way out of that section of town. You then continue on into the suburban part of the town with its cookie cutter houses and lawns. Once there you once again notice that there are no living signs of people in this area. You do not see any children running about or people coming home from their jobs.
You decide to walk back to your car as you have not found any explanation in this town for what is going on. On the way back you again have to pass through the industrialized area. As you are passing the warehouse you heard the noise from earlier you notice that the bay doors are open. Earlier you were sure that they were closed. A little bit curious but still cautious you make your way to the doors. You peer inside but cannot really see anything in the darkness of the warehouse. You shrug and are about to turn around when something rushes past you and out onto the street. You turn around quickly not wanting to leave your back to whatever it was in case it was dangerous. You turn to see what appears to be a giant snake that is as thick as a tree trunk and about sixty feet long. You also notice that it has legs of a horse and not just four but many along its body. It reminds you of centipedes; you freak out when you see them.
This new creature is also staring at you with its mouth open showing you fangs of sharp teeth. The look in its eyes is of a creature that is starving and looking for its next meal. Which would happen to be you if you do not escape it. It rushes at you but as you go to move, it captures you in its coils and slowly brings its mouth towards your face. You start losing the ability to breathe as its coils tighten around you and you gasp for breath.
During this the bunny creature on your shoulder is startled awake and takes stock of the situation around you. It sees you in distress and tries to rescue you to the best of its ability. It leaps at the head of the snake and lands on its nose and lashes out its eyes. It successfully lands a hit on one of its eyes temporarily blinding that eye. The snake thrashes its head in pain and dislodges the bunny creature. The bunny creature gets thrown into a wall and does not move. The snake's coils slowly loosen from around you and you take this chance to escape its reach.
You run to the bunny creature and scoop it up and are glad it is only unconscious. You look back to the snake to see that it has regained its bearings and is eyeing you again. You know that you cannot out run it and look around for another way to escape it. You decide to run into the dark warehouse hoping to escape it and hide behind some boxes to the left of the open bay door. The snake chases after you and enters the warehouse.
However, you forgot that snakes have a good sense of smell and it can smell wherever you hide. You dart just out of the way as it lunges at you in your hiding place. You try to run but trip over another set of boxes you didn’t see. This startles awake the unconscious bunny creature in your arm and causes it to accidentally bite you. You decide to ignore the injury for now as you try to escape the other creature chasing you. However, after the bunny creature accidentally biting you the snake creature stops chasing you and just leaves. Confused, you look back at the bunny creature but it hops from your arms and disappears into the darkness.
You go to follow the bunny creature but stop as you begin to feel dizzy and sharp pain erupts all throughout your body. Your vision starts to darken around the edges and you collapse to the ground. As you slowly lose consciousness you do not hear anything around you.
When you wake up a short time later you notice that everything around you seems to have sharper details. You also notice your sense of smell and hearing are stronger. You go to stand up on two feet but stumble as you look down to see the problem. You first notice you have paws instead of hands and that you no longer have skin but fur. You try getting back up again but this time find yourself able to stand but you are walking on four limbs. You try to walk but stumble at first but are finally able to steadily walk out of the warehouse. You are still confused and continue to walk back to your vehicle.
You are walking through the area where the stores are downtown and see your reflection in the window. What you see causes you to freak out even more than you did earlier when you woke up. You are no longer human but have turned into one of the many creatures that you have seen wandering about. You have the body and legs of a giant cat but the head of a wolf and the tail of a fox. Your eyes are no longer your original eye color they were but a sharp piercing gold. You now think that you know what happened to the other people. Some of them must have been turned into these creatures and the rest attacked and possibly eaten. You decide that you have seen enough and start the long trek home back to your house.
The End.
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