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Smack! The shoe hit the volume button on the radio and once again missed the spider. Regardless, the spider scurried away at the impact. Skitting across the side it disappeared around the back. The volume on the station had been turned up and it would have been difficult to ignore the news report now that it seemed to monopolize all noise to be heard. If she didn't turn it down quickly Ashley would hear an interesting, if not odd, report.

"...Downtown Officials told us they were reluctant to block off certain streets for this afternoons watch party but informed us the area in and around Main Street is going to see slow traffic. This all started weeks ago when a gentlemen in the community allegedly made contact with one of the supposed 'Worm-People' and apparently the word traveled quickly and soon they filed for an official permit to congregate there this afternoon. For more on this, visit met-news dot com or watch our regularly scheduled telecast at noon. Now for Mike with the weather..."

Thunk! The bone smacked one of the creatures in what could be assumed to be its face. It writhed uncomfortably and either through frightening coincidence or as a direct result of what just happened, the ground shook at a deep, bass sound coming from below the ground. Immediately the two straightened up, one with a slight waver, and paused. With intense speed, they rushed by Aaron frighteningly fast. But they did not stop at him and instead entered the open door to Aaron's right and slithered out of sight. An empty bottle that had been knocked over by the creatures sat spinning, scratching on the alley floor.

Ashley was so tempted in turning the radio off, but all she could manage to do was lower it slowly as she got intrigued. "Worm-People?" She wondered if it was some kind of promotional skit for a new movie coming out. Although she was not too big in facts, she did know movies, and knew that they would start up some kind of rumor going around before the release of an undercover movie. If that was the case, she would want in on the casting.

So perhaps she could find on the internet. To her luck, she did own a computer, more or less it was a laptop. more or less because of all the rebooting she had to do to it, it was a horrible beast, but she got through with it. And connected to the internet. "What was that website again?" Ashley forgot to write it down, but it wasn't too hard to recall. Just took her a minute to think about it. "Ah!" 'Met-news.com' type type, she had it all out, and clicked on the go. Now all she had to do was wait for the website to load up.

As Lily approached the officer Eli and Daniel stood in silence. Daniel's quiet was one of patience. He simply was waiting until Lily was finished and then they'd be rejoined. Eli's silence was different. He remembered at first being reluctant to even helping Lily. He didn't like girls and he wasn't to keen on letting a stranger know he was afraid. Shuffling his feet a little, he thought uncomfortably of how he now stood a little disheartened as Lily walked away. Despite himself he wondered what would happen now. With all that had happened, it hadn't occured to him what he would do when it came time to part ways.

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The officer scribbled a note on his paper and relayed a message through his radio. A girl approached the wreckage. She appeared a little shaken up and he figured she must have been there when it happened too. Though he could have sworn he checked and double checked for anyone else and he was positive he hadn't seen her. Nevertheless, he flipped his notepad over to a fresh page and addressed the girl.

"How can I help you?"

It was hard work, negotiating the debris and earth trying to reach the exit. Only adding to the difficulty was the care that needed to be taken to keep their fallen friend's body from further harm. Thoughts of guilt at leaving Carlos behind squirmed uncomfortably inside Ryan. Carlos seemed in such a frenzy after realizing Leslie's fate, perhaps he was being too rash, perhaps he was centering all of his emotions on someone else to keep his mind off Leslie. Carlos bounded on the creature and the people he would help. Ryan helped Alaina as they passed into the tunnel. Neither looked back.

Above, a loud crumbling came and moments later a massive slab of concrete slammed into the ground below, covering the entrance to the tunnel Alaina and Ryan had only just entered. Darkness enveloped them and the sound of others talking and yelling further down the curving tunnel met their ears. Their path was set.

'Okay,' his mind raced with thoughts, 'either... they really hate dogs, and dog food, or there is something really wrong going on...' So why did they run off really? He didn't hit them hard, he was sure of that, after all how much could a human do to a thing that could kill a dog so quickly? So it wasn't a matter of that, could it have been the fact that the earth shook? Perhaps they were chased out of the earth by hell itself, and it was trying to devour them once more... No wait! Crap! They couldn't get up the ladder could they? No... but if he climbed up to the roof, and if they are going up the stairs in the building, they'd get him on the roof. Of course was it really worth jumping down to take off towards the street? They might just be toying with him, waiting for him to make a mistake. They were probably intelligent little beast, all horror movies had intelligent bad guys or stupid people, and he didn't want to believe he was stupid, so they had to be intelligent! So what would he do? He'd hold onto the ladder until the coast was clear. He'd give it about two, three minutes before he made a clear cut decision on going up or down, but currently, going down was a better choice, he wasn't in the mood to climb the ladder.