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 Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:40 pm
Elke screamed each time the animal slammed against the door, the sound just as ear-piercing but nowhere near so horrific as the sound of the monster itself. When the sounds stopped, she took a soft, shuddering breath and fell back a few more steps.
"W-what was that," she asked the ether, since she didn't expect Sue to answer. Sue didn't like her; why would he answer her questions? But even if she asked nobody, he'd still hear, and maybe he'd say something. That was a good place, a good thought. It set her back on track. "We're going to be so late," she whispered, sounding horrified. Nobody would look for them, it was true, Barren Pines was collegiate like that, but she needed all the help she could get and --
She felt weirdly giddy. She giggled into the sleeves of her uniform cardigan. The real upside was that whatever it was hadn't gotten them!
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:33 pm
Back away back away back away from the god-danged door! That was a loud noise. Like there was a big creature. Maybe it was a coyote - but no coyote Sue had ever heard made a noise like that....
There were tall, paned windows on the floor level, not far from the door. "Good God almighty," Sue swore under his breath, skirting around to try and get a look through them at whatever was outside. His heart was pounding, mind racing on in a fruitless attempt to guess what they'd just managed to dodge - "Cripes, did you hear how big that thing was? Cougar, maybe?" he suggested aloud. He'd always expected to be able to talk with the big cats, though.
On the bright side, alliances are struck under fire - for the moment, Sue wasn't thinking about how much he hated Elke. He just wanted to know what it was that had taken a lunge at them. After all, anything that big could be a danger to the cats, and God forbid if any of his friends got hurt!
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:58 pm
"What are you two doing?"
The nasally voice of Mr. Stevens barked out at the students, the sound of the teacher's old worn out loafers clearly audible as they stomped down the hallway towards the two teenagers. The math teacher was never one for students dallying and loitering in the hallways of his school, and he was going to put a stop to it this instant. They were troublemakers, all of them. Good students should be in class and if not, in their rooms studying or finishing their homework in a timely manner. There was nothing productive that could be accomplished in the hallways, only trouble.
Should the students turn, they would see the short balding man glaring at them, his beady eyes magnified by his large coke bottle glasses. His hands were on his hips, his face in a scowl.
Those horrible beady eyes narrowed, suspicion evident in his voice. "Shouldn't you be in class?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:13 pm
At the sudden intrusion of her third-block maths teacher, Elke gave another breathless shriek; she had expected another monster. To see a teacher, an utterly calm and normal teacher, and for the teacher to scold her, that was a good call back to reality. She calmed quickly enough to give Mr. Stevens an absolutely terrified look and say, "I - I - there's a monster outside," but that was as far as her nerves went. With a sharp exhalation, she slumped to sit on the floor - not fainted, just running out of that short burst of adrenaline.
She patted her bag. "I don't feel well, Mr. Stevens," she said. It was true. She really didn't. Elke also decided she was quite happy sitting on the floor for now. Maybe she'd give the stairs a go in a minute. "I... think I'm going to go back to my dorm and sleep."
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:20 pm
Monster? Sue would've slapped her upside the head if she was close enough to reach for such stupidity, but things being as they were, settled himself with a despising glare. "Probably a coyote," Sue corrected shortly, drawing nearer to the window to try and get a better look outside. Damn... had the thing really run off so fast?
He gave up on trying to spot it, pushing back to give Mr. Stevens his proper attention. "Oughta give the groundskeeper a call." Then his gaze went back to Elke, and he added, "and maybe the nurse."
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:56 pm
"Oh this is absurd," he huffed, continuing to glance back and forth between the two students. It was bad enough that they were loitering in the hallways of the school, attempting to peep out the window like some shameless stalker, but to come up with such ridiculous excuses? "Monsters? Coyotes? In Barren Pines? I'm not sure what sort of trick you two are trying to pull, but it's not going to work on my watch."
With that, the teacher stormed forward, his hand latching on to the knob and thrusting the door open. "We'll have the occassional feline or two, but coyotes? What kind of nonsense is that? There aren't coyotes around these parts for miles!"
He walked out, the students holding their breath as the teacher made his way outside. Was he going to be attacked by whatever had been lurking within the growling bush?
They waited for a scream, but it never came. Instead, Mr. Stevens let out a scoff and beckoned the two students forward. "This is your monstrous coyote?"
One stubby finger pointed forward, aimed at a small white kitten staring innocently up at the angry man. It mewed softly, and quickly scampered off as the math teacher's foot nudged it off of the cement walkway.
Turning back to the students, his face cross as ever, the teacher nodded his head. "I believe it would be for the better if you returned to your rooms. Or the nurse, if you want to get your heads checked. If I catch you dilly-dallying in the hallways again, though, it will be detention for the both of you, do you understand? I don't have time for this nonsense!"
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:28 pm
Elke followed the teacher only to the doorway, but even then she could see the little white kitten. It was adorable, but something had been there, something big enough to rattle the doors. Shouldn't Mr. Stevens have heard the monster scream?
"Y-yes," she agreed, hurrying back to her bag and picking it up. "We will, Mr. Stevens. Right, Sue? We will!"
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:42 pm
... Kitten?
KITTEN?
"Hold on," Sue cried out, immediately concerned for the white little form retreating. "You can't go out there right now, buddy, there's something around--"
Damn it, it was already running off! No no no, this couldn't be happening. What the hell was wrong with Mr. Stevens? How could he just shove away a little kitten, not knowing if the poor thing needed a helping hand or not? You had to get to them when there were kittens, didn't that dumb teacher know? Kittens could find homes!
See, THIS WAS WHY Sue couldn't stand people! So wrapped up in their own affairs....
Attitude problems, Sue had plenty of. Normally, they were muted for the sake of the teachers in the school - but normally, the teachers didn't get between him and his cats. "Yessir Mr. Stevens," Sue bristled from the doorway, "we'll be good. Right Elke." This last part was just as savage as the rest - after all, he knew right well what Elke would think about the importance of the little kitten running off into the bushes.
Pulling his jacket tighter around him, Sue stepped off the walkway himself, and took several steps in the direction that the kitten had gone to. "C'mon, little one, it's all right!" he was calling out reassuringly, already knowing that it was probably too late. Really, once a cat made up its mind to leave, there wasn't much that could be done about it. He was just hoping that the kitten had spooked into the bushes, and not run off further....
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:52 pm
While Mr. Stevens was making quite the huffy exit, muttering about nonsense, delinquent children and not getting paid enough, the little white kitten had begun to scamper its way back around from the side of the building, its pace slow and intentional. It was watching Mr. Stevens as he shoved his way past the students and back into the building, and it wasn't until he was visibly out of sight that the kitten stepped closer, its tiny paws making their way onto the pathway.
Sue knew, as with all wild cats, that it was best to let them approach the human, and not the other way around. Keeping that in mind, he was cautious not to make any sudden movements or jerks, and the white kitten perused its way along the edge of the walkway, in the direction of both them and the drainpipe dead ahead of its path.
The kitten was terribly fluffy, the white hair mussed up, its ears lowered in an unusual way. It obviously had intentions of investigating the drainpipe, but as it neared the opening, the kitten stopped.
Its head turned, facing both Elke and Sue, and it was at that moment that both students noticed that the kitten had red eyes. Not just any red eyes, but these eyes seemed to be....well, they seemed to be glowing. The kitten opened its mouth as if to let out another pitiful mew, but instead, long needle-like teeth began to appear from within its jaws, the opening spreading wide, wider than on any feline Sue had ever cared for before. In fact, one could say it was even grinning at the two startled children, a vicious terrifying grin that almost seemed to hint as if the kitten was silently saying perhaps next time.
Before either student could make a move, whether towards the kitten or towards Mr. Stevens, the creature shot up into the drainpipe, snaking its way up the long pipe and up towards the rooftop. The racket wasn't loud, no one else would have been able to hear the creature shimmying up, leaving the two children alone with themselves once more.
At least, for now.
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:24 pm
Elke nodded sycophantically until the teacher was out of sight, and then she let out a breath she had been quite aware of holding. "Let's go inside," she said, clasping her hands together. "That thing wasn't a cute little kitty and you know it, Sue --"
Instead of actually going inside, he was chasing the kitten? Well, that made sense, but a kitten would have enough sense to avoid the monster, where-ever the monster was --
The red eyes spooked Elke, but she didn't flee back to the safety of the building until the teeth began to appear and - She ran back indoors, stumbling on her way inside and skinning her hands. Once her bag and her camera were back in her hands, she waited for Sue. Just for a moment, with her bag held tightly against her chest, a look of extreme panic on her face. When he was slow to follow, she fled to the first-floor study room. There was no way in Hell she would go back inside. She could miss the rest of her classes for the day. She could miss meals. But she was not, not going outside.
Not until Avery's basketball practice, anyway, maybe.
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:13 pm
What was that.
No. Really.
WHAT. WAS. THAT.
Kitties' eyes did not glow like that. Kitties' mouths did not open like that. They sure as hell did not give smiles like that.
Sue had liked it much better when he'd been able to think it was a coyote on campus.
"Good God almighty," Sue choked, barely able to breathe, "did you just see that----"
Oh. Elke was gone.
Now, Sue had common sense. It might not make up for the pop culture experience he lacked or the experience of survival guides on the internet, but there were certain places where it sufficed. And just now, common sense was kindly instructing him to <******** book it.
For the record, Sue would be missing class for the rest of the day. He was going to be far too occupied hiding in his dorm room, searching the web for reports of toxic dump sites, alien visitations, or any other rational explanation for what he'd just seen.
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