MONSTER HUNTING

An unthinkable sacrifice

Panic.

Panic spreads all over his body when he hears her gruff voice. It was as if a soul had taken over her body. Ruth looked exactly like a possessed demon, like a monster and her aura shifted to something superficially sinister.

Who is possessing her!?

Or even better- What was possessing her!?

Dane couldn't believe his eyes either. Ut was as if the thin line between reality and fiction has disappeared and the memories will forever clme to haunt him in the worst ways possible.

'This can't be, right? Ruth and I...we have so many plans together. I want to spend my whole life with her, rare a family with her...'

'All my middle class dreams end with the sight in front of me. For I can never let myself marry a monster."

A blood curdling scream leaves his mouth when Ruth pounces on him. Her claws almost get him under her vicious grip. She was close to having him as her next target!

Charlize was shaken too, but it looked as though Charlize was coming up to make a hard decision. But Dane was getting attacked!

She has to act fast!

And maybe...that was the hardest decision of her life.

Just as Ruth, possessed by a demon tried to attack Dane, a crisp sound of bones grinding and flesh piercing was heard. Dane was still screaming and was cowered into the corner with his body curled up into a ball. He could hear the choking sounds of discomfort from Ruth, before she collapsed and hit her head on the steering wheel.

Ruth met her demise in the worst way possible.

But her soul was happy and content. Because she did not harm her loved ones intentionally, and she was blessed to reach hell in their presence. Her best friend, and her sweet, office goer boyfriend.

Terrified beyond limits, Dane dared to look back up at Ruth's body with tears twirling in his eyes. He was exasperated, panting as his body refused to cope with the bravery falsely flowing in his mind. His eyes grew large in shock.

There was a dark metal pierced through Ruth's body. From her chest. It was long. Too long and tapering dangerously with a crooked design. The weapon was enough to rupture every organ inside the body and jab out on the other end.

"What the…" Dane was in grief and confusion, but mostly confusion. It all felt like a nightmare and the one who killed Ruth was none other than…

"Charlize…?" His shaky voice took her name.

She pulled the sword-like rebar out of the corpse of Ruth, and the semi monstrous transformation she was possessed by. Dane felt like he was losing his mind. There was no way it was a dream anymore.

"What the fuck, Charlize!? Why— Ruth? Ruth, baby! Get up—" Charlize sighed heavily, she didn't want to hit Dane with any more surprises. After all, he will be grieving over a lot of information other than just Ruth's sudden, miserable death.

"There's no time to explain here, Dane. Someone's died here, and we have to be careful with compensation."

Most of her words flew over his head.

"Compensation? What the fuck has gotten into you—"

Dane gasps loudly when he notices her metallic forearm, at the base of the sword she pierced Ruth with!

"Y-You're a monster too! Get away from me! I'm going to be killed— SOMEONE, HELP ME!!!" alas, the tunnel favored Charlize as she shook her head in disappointment. Dane had a really bad intuition, doesn't he? Can't even tell who's the good guy and who's the bad.

"I just saved your life, dickhead. We have to make this look like an accident." Said she, walking out for a brief while.

An idea strikes her as she shook Dane by his shoulders. Charlize was trying to make it look like an accident, but deep down, she mourned for the crude fate that had landed them in this position.

Had it not been that Ruth turned into a monster, the three would've reached home, partied in private at Ruth's house. All in all, it would've been just another night in their lives.

But fate had a different answer for her questions.

'Why Ruth? Why couldn't it be anyone else?'

All is to be discovered, yet.

"Okay, listen to me. We have to make it look like an accident here, okay? The police will find out one way or another. We were at a fucking public event too." She said to the terrified male.

"I- I'll do whatever you want. Just don't kill me!"

"Oh god, I'm still Charlize, you dumb head. Get into the car. Same position." She instructed.

"O-Okay." Dane followed her words mindlessly. He knew his mind wasn't working at the moment, so it was better to use thoughts of the one whose mind's attention and working.

"Okay, embrace yourself." Saying, Charlize extends her left forearm and it produces a long metallic structure.

"Reverse the car a little." She instructed Dane who looked at the jockey.

"Do it, now!" He jumped at her scary voice. He pushed the jockey of the car to reverse gear. He gulped nervously upon witnessing her expert handling with the rebar that was growing out of her hand.

"Here we go!" Yelling, she presses on the accelerator and the car loses control. 'By accident'.

They head straight towards the tunnel walls as the car collides into it with a massive bang.

Dane was saved by the airbag, but Ruth's corpse collided onto the steering wheel again.

"Ow…" Dane held his head, he hit a part of the desk as well. He flinched when he hears someone jumping on the deck.

It was Charlize, her hand growing out into what should look like a street lamp pole. A smaller, darker one.

"You don't wanna see this, Dane." She said to him.

"What are you doing— OH GOD, THAT'S FUCKUNG GROSS!" Dane quickly threw his head to the other side. The flesh piercing sound was making him feel sick to the stomach.

The baffling sound only stirred his stomach unnaturally, in disgust. Dane grew pale within a few seconds as he felt lightheaded.

He flew out of the broken car window, landing on shards of glass as he threw up everything from his stomach. Only after emptying everything out, Dane felt better and blankly stared at the only source of light at the entrance of the tunnel.

What will Charlize do to him now? He wasn't exactly in the perfect mental state and he was collapsing as well. The poor man traumatized enough for a lifetime felt so dizzy, that he couldn't hear Charlize calling his name out loud.

And that day, Dane knew he wasn't alone in this world.

If Ruth was the monster as Charlize described...

What species is Charlize then?