Hope of Nightmares

[Borg12345]

It was indeed Frederic's last scream, at least for now, as the creature's clawed hand clasped around his mouth.

"AAAAAA-mmmmmgh!"

The claws cut into his face, and he felt blood drawn to the surface. Shaking like the walls of his manor on a windy day, all the lord could do was stare at the creature. He couldn't tell if it was staring back or not...

[Swix]

It was kind of unfortunate that Frederic couldn't tell if the creature was staring back or not, because it was. It was also unfortunate that he'd have a very hard time reading what the creatures emotions were, as alien as he was his body language would be almost unrecognisable. The fact that the creature moved it's horrific head closer to the now shaking lord and seemed to be examining him meant that it at least had some way of seeing him, even if it wasn't apparent.

The creature closed his jaw, but still bared teeth, as he thought over what to do next. There was a language barrier here, he knew, but not one he could overcome alone. He needed the humans help for that, but, if this one kept up his screaming then the creature would have to deal with him and try again. He felt droplets of blood trickle from his claws and realised that he still hadn't gotten used to his strength.

There was only one thing for it really, the vocal communication was a no go.

So. Instead he raised his barbed tail and started writing in Commom on the wall

'I'm going to take my hand off your mouth' the message said: 'don't scream, or it goes back on. If you do, others worse than me will come. I can't speak your language, but I can understand you'

The creature covered his teeth with his lips again and slowly released his grip on the humans mouth when he felt his shaking reach a steady beat, his other hand went to grab one of the lords shoulders just so he didn't go running off screaming.

[Coolpikaaa]

Back in the original room, one of the capsule machines flickers, then immediately seems to be completely full, as if a slightly shimmering, jungle green liquid had poured itself in to the brim. Pressed right up against the glass, it almost seems that way, but to anyone with a pair of eyes several things would quickly seem off. For one, the contents of the container seemed scaly, and also didn't pour out of the open face of the chamber.

<big>Rooo<big>ooooo<big>ooaaaa<big>aaarrrrrrrrrrr&#33;&#33;&#33;</big></big></big></big>

Oh, and there was that.


The possibility of the contents of capsule 4 actually turning out to just be liquid now erased from anyone in the proximity's mind, whatever it was began to move, or at least try to. Clearly it was pressed too tightly against to accomplish anything remotely useful, but that didn't stop it from trying. After several more roars, and small, but ultimately pointless creaks from the glass, the creature finally stopped.

She was probably going to need help on this one...

[Swix]

In the first room, Tetsu would find help a little hard to come by as noone else showed up after the dragon in the other capsules yet, nor were they likely to come back through the sand filled room to help.

However there was what sounded like a thud on the roof above her, followed by trumpeting inhuman yells and a strange fizzing sound.

The strange fizzing sound dropped in height rather quickly, until it hit the top of the capsule and continued down-an acidic liquid ate through the walls of the tube near the door, effectively widening it for the cramped creature. But she was going to have to weigh whether risking getting closer to the stuff was worth freedom from the pod.

In the sand filled room next door, the timer got ever closer to zero and taking all the air away.

In the hallway that Frederic and the creature were in, the strange being turned it's head to stare in the direction of the roar, distracted for a brief moment.

[Jent]

What ever thoughts that passed through the creature's mind were constantly interrupted by the other inhabitants of the building. It burrowed deeper into the make-shift shelter when the 'Hisser” hesitated temporarily near it. A wave of relief splashed across its mind when it decided to moved ahead on its directive. Though the stress from the experience allowed for more sand and water to slowly seep from the its two personal belongings.


"Warning, atmosphere ventilation has been engaged. All personnel evacuate the room Vacuum occurring in T minus two minutes.”


The began to panic once more. This constant message blaring out gave the creature a clear message of what it should … GET OUT&#33;

Scrambling around in the burrow, it surveyed dark surroundings in case it forgot something. Even though it still retained the coin and pearls on its self, the terror bombarded its mind from possible thinking with any form of calm logic. Which only the final needle need to 'prod” to alter its current task.



<big>Rooo<big>ooooo<big>ooaaaa<big>aaarrrrrrrrrrr&#33;&#33;&#33;</big></big></big></big>



Instinctively, the bronze coin and the string of pearls surged forth several bucket loads of material around the creature defensively. The creature then leaped toward the opposite direction of the malicious roaring blast originating from the chambered room.

[Coolpikaaa]

((Hmm, someone's making assumptions... But I'll let it slide, as you just happen to be correct this time, Mrs. Swix. ))

Inside the tube, the solid mass squirmed ineffectually. Not that there was any room to squirm. With both wings wrapped tightly around her body, the Dragon crammed inside the teleporter couldn't even see, and hardly breathe for that matter.

Fssss...

With a loud creak, the Dragon's wings rapidly unfurl slightly, and for the first time her face in unobstructed enough that she can see her new surroundings. The new surroundings, and a very clear danger.

An acid of some kind was eroding it's way down the walls of her chamber. While this had freed her, by removing the highest connections of the frame. While the walls were still connected by the bottom, she now had enough available room to-

WHAP&#33;

<big>CLANG&#33;</big>

With one strong kick from her powerful draconic leg, the dragon sent the whole sizzling pane of glass clear across the room, and crashing against the doorframe of the adjacent room. She stretched her wings, popping as they expanded then folded back comfortably on her back.

Sounds from above, yelling and scuffling... A fight? The Dragon could only see shadows through the hole the acid had burned through- it must have been some fairly potent stuff. Perhaps if she could get upstairs, one of them could be persuaded to reveal information about where they were, and maybe how to get back.

Stepping on the pane she had so elegantly removed with a satisfying crunch, Tetsu made a step into a room strangely enough covered in sand. Her wings unfortunately caught on the doorframe. Rather than repositioning herself, the Dragon simply continued to walk, tearing down most of the wall, and adding her own dust to the mess.

What was this place, built for hobbits?

The Dragon moved slowly about the room, crunching anything unfortunate enough to get under her claws. Something had destroyed this place, and strangely, it hadn't seem all too long ago. Where had all this sand come from?

She crouched to examine an area of wet sand. Water too? Nothing here appeared to be leaking...

Picking up one of the nearby stuffed animals, and balancing it on her claw, Tetsu-ko began to wonder just what was going on here.

[Swix]

((Hisser? Hmm, I like that. I'm gonna call my creature Hisser from now on Jent ))

'Hisser' hissed again as... something small and covered in wet sand flew out of the room threatening to cause a vacuum and smacked him square in the knees, causing the horrific creature to stumble and fling out a clawed arm that would likely knock Frederic into the wall behind him.

This also put Hisser under the impression he was under attack-something that he could've understood if he was acting the way his instincts were strongly urging him to. But he wasn't, so he didn't.

What he did do was hiss again, much more aggressively with his teeth bared, and swipe at the strange wet sand ball with his other claws. The ones that hadn't been propelled into the lord by momentum.

The message blared in the sand filled room even while the dragon walked through it, destroying doors and cuddly toys that were unfortunate enough to get in her way. The message in that room was joined by a second, identical voice blaring the same identical message as the seals between them were irreparably broken.

'Vacuum will occur in 30 seconds' they announced '29, 28, 27' they went on.

((EDIT: Added a bit))

[Swix]

Epilogue:

The three beings that had been ripped from Ana to land on this alien world, even the horrifically destructive dragon soon became unconscious as said horrifically destructive dragon broke seal after seal within the building as she walked through the place, and the automatic defences within the facility caused the vacuum to begin simultaneously everywhere as they detected damage. The creature that had come to think of itself as Hisser did manage to stay awake long enough however to go over and break the shutters and windows that led to the outside purely to prolong it's own survival, where the oxygen mixture from the planet outside rushed in and the computer systems in the facility instead locked off the rest of the building from the outer breach.

The people that were snatched here would likely hear this going off as their consciousness left them, but they would wake back on Ana, where they were before they had been taken away to this unknown place for unknown reasons.

There were stories of a horrifically bloodthirsty creature that stalked the nights, hung upside down with little effort that most everything in the forest avoided afterwards though. But that was just a rumour, it couldn't have followed them back through.. right?