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…He froze for a moment, then started to walk backwards, too afraid to look away from the lanky creature. He stepped on the glass again, it gashed right in the same place on his foot as before. It was bleeding very frantically now, and if he didn’t get it patched up in the next ten minutes, he would definitely go unconscious. He was in a part of the hallway he hadn’t been to yet. It smelt extremely horrific, but he could not figure out what it was. The thing was still mere feet behind him, groaning increasingly loud. With every step it took it felt like a small earthquake. It was everything he could do to stay ahead of it, but it was so dark and he was slipping on the tile from his wound with every step he took. He tripped over something. It was soft and mushy. It was too dark to make it out, but when he used his hand to prop himself up, he felt its face. It was human, that was for sure, and it definitely wasn’t alive. Then it sunk its teeth right into his hand. Suddenly he could hear grotesque, mutilated sounds from all around him. He sprung to his feet. Then the creature was so close he could feel its steely breath on his shoulders. He ran as fast as he could now. He could feel the bodies around him rising up from the floor. Their heads were brushing past his abdomen. He was even touching shoulder to shoulder with some of them. He could see a white light at the end of the hallway that he had just turned into. He had done it. He was home-free. He couldn’t be more than thirty, maybe even twenty yards away. Then, silhouettes started filling up the white space. They were rising up from the floor, slowly like the others, and more were funneling in from the open rooms lining the hallway. He looked behind him and the shifty footsteps were getting ever closer, as well as the monstrous footsteps from the creature. He opened up the door nearest to him, only to come face to face with half a dozen more of them. He did his best to hurry and close it, but they were to strong and too many. The gap between the herd behind him and the ones in front was getting tighter and tighter. There were only a few unopened doors to try before he would be overrun. He opened up door after door, only to be greeted by musky breath, dead eyes, and hands reaching out as if for a loving embrace. Only it was anything but. He knew that when the first one bit him on the hand. There were only two or three doors left now. He opened the next one. There were more of the “humans”, but there was a light on in this room. It shined into the hallway and he could see something twinkling, perhaps made of some sort of glass. He ran hastily to it, picked it up, and had but mere seconds to inspect it. It was a SWAT riot shield. Then claws were digging into the back of his neck and head. He swung it at them, knocking several to the ground. He was weak, and the shield was heavier than it looked, but he knew what he had to do. He squarely positioned his body behind the shield, took a deep breath, and started sprinting with everything he had left.
Part 3
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