Red Worm

"lets dump the body out of here"

Nathan said while looking at the red man's dead body full of hollow tubes. he stared coldly at it then he looked outside. just now he realized that the snow that has been falling since yesterday has stopped, also the red sky has gained its natural color. it was now a clear blue sky with clouds blocking the sun.

'wow, i never thought i would say this just by looking at the sky heh'

Nathan thought while feeling the sunlight hitting his skin. the other students saw this too. they were filled with joy, they jump up high at the sight of the new day. some students started hugging each other, while the others were praying thanking God.

Nathan saw the students overflowing with joy then said.

"someone help me with this"

Nathan was pointing at the dead body signaling that they have to carry it. suddenly a skinny man wearing glasses shouted.

"WAIT, WAIT!"

it was Michael, apparently he was very interested in the body of this monster and want to examine it first. Michael kneeled on the left side of the body. then he tried to lift the abnormally big hands of the monster. he was surprise when he tried to lift the left big hand with one hand, he 'tried' but he failed, the hand was incredibly heavy it weighed at least five kilograms! but it wasn't just his hands also the feet was also weighed five kilograms. the skin on both hands and feet was rough it was as rough as sand paper. he tried putting pressure on the back of a hand and it felt solid, it seems like the bones tripled in size and became ten times denser than normal. when he examined other parts of the body, he was surprised not because of abnormality but because it felt normal. the feeling of the skin, the softness of the flesh it was all normal except that the skin was completely bloody red.

'no wonder hollow metal tubes can pierce his body'

Michael thought while holding his chin. the students saw Michael observing the the dead body and also knew what Michael found out because he was saying to them everything he noticed about the body. Annie was just standing beside her friend, Andrew who just reunited after being trapped on another classroom. she was holding a faber castle pen on her left hand while a notebook resting on her right palm. she was writing everything about the red man on her notebook, the characteristics, descriptions, possible weaknesses everything.

while still examining the body Michael saw the nose of the red man twitch. Michael jump up then walked away while still facing the body. Nathan and the others saw Michael and readied their weapons. they were ready to jump at the dead body when they saw a red worm crawling out of the right nostril of the dead body, it was as long as the pen Annie was using, and as thick as a grown man's pinky finger. its head was armored by a black material much like an exoskeleton of a beetle. it had a needle like protrusion where the mouth should be, it was at least two centimeters long. at the end of the needle was a small hole where a whip like organ was coming out like a snake's tongue. its body was fleshy red color like a heart, on the sides they can see root like structures the longest of it was three inches long while the shortest was only one inches long. the longer the roots the more it has branches extending out of it.

the red worm crawled its way out of the nostril, its upper body stood as high as it could while the whip like organ was coming in and out of the needle like a snake when sensing its prey. suddenly, the worm quickly moved. the movement was reminiscent of a caterpillar as it moved to the nearest student, but it wasn't fast enough.

"MOVE! MOVE! GET AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE! THAT'S THE ALIEN! THAT'S THE ALIEN!!!"

Michael was shouting his lungs out while pointing at the red worm. the students ran away quickly. the worm was only able to move for about three feet away from the body before it stopped moving. it was dead.

"HAH! i knew it! they can't survive earth's atmosphere!"

Michael looked at Nathan with a big smile on his face. he was very proud that he was right. Nathan was startled at the yelling Michael but he didn't mind it that much. Nathan nodded back at Michael.

Michael saw this and moved closer to the dead worm. he carefully picked up the worm by its tail with his thumb and index finger. he brought it up to eye level and examined it more thoroughly.

"Yep, it's dead"

Michael said while looking at its face. he turned the worm and he saw its flat belly. looking closely he saw rows of tiny holes on each side of its belly it goes from the worm's neck to its tail with only a few millimeters gap for each hole. Michael squeezed the belly and back simultaneously with his fingers then he saw small green claws coming out each holes. it looked really sharp. then he saw the roots more closely it was at least three millimeters thick its underside had hair like threads it was as thin as a human hair, but it was only one inch long at most.

"hmmm, mmm, yeah. wow this is really cool, guys loo-"

before he could finish what he was saying, the students already left and Nathan was already carrying the dead body to the nearest classroom, John was with him. Michael felt a little awkward to himself.

"so, what are are you going to do to that alien worm thing?"

John asked curiously.

"well... I'm just going to keep it, you know, for academic purposes"

Michael shrugged while putting the worm inside his empty water bottle.

"hmmm"

John can't say anything else.

they dumped the body at the back of the school, a building was being constructed there but it stopped now because of the apocalypse. then they conducted a meeting immediately.

they talked about the plan concerning about the rescue mission for the students trapped in second floor. they changed some plans, some were assigned to go to fourth floor to check if there's student hiding or red monsters lurking in there. if there are students, they will call them immediately, if monsters are there, they will quickly close the metal gate carefully then report what they found. after this, Nathan asked the most important question.

"where are the professors? our professor was on our classroom when the red day happened, shouldn't your professors too?"

Nathan was bewildered because he didn't see a single professor when they rescued the students from other rooms. then a student spoked.

"our prof... when it happened, 'the red day', we heard screams. at that time we didn't see that the sky turned red and red snow was falling. after we heard screams, our professor went outside and told us to stay inside so we stayed. we were so afraid of the screams we didn't dare go outside"

she had a grim expression on her face looking down as she was talking. then other students agreed.

"yeah, that's what happened to us too."

"do you think our professors are dead?"

Annie asked with a sad expression.

"maybe, maybe not all of them. i mean, they're adults. surely they can survive somehow. either way, we will know after we cleared second and first floor"

Nathan said with a firm expression. he was hiding his uneasiness under his serious face.

"lets clear the second floor now, Annie, contact her now, tell her to be ready"

"Okay!"

Annie contacted Micah. although Micah can barely see the red monster, she was still able to give description of it to Nathan's team. the description was the same as the monster they just killed, but now the monster is a woman. this time the team only consisted of four people, Annie, John, Joshua and Nathan. this is because if there were too many of them at the same time, they wouldn't have enough space to dodge the rams and punches of the red monster.

the team went down the stairs leading to second floor to their left was the stairs leading to first floor and in their right was the hallway. Nathan peeked at the hallway he can clearly see the red woman standing in the middle of the hallway. Nathan nodded at Annie. then Annie contacted Micah and told them to start the plan. suddenly a door burst open just too classrooms away from the red woman. it was Micah and nurse Josephine. although they are trembling with fear, they still did their job perfectly. the red woman quickly ran towards them. Micah and nurse Josephine. they have the same weapon as Nathan's team. before the red woman reached them Nathan and his team had already catch up.

they easily took down the red woman as they already know how it moves and think. they dodged the punches, landed a counter attack, pushed with shield to lose its balance then pierced the body with their weapons. when they confirmed that the red woman was dead, they moved back a bit waiting for the worm to come out. and there it was, it died a few seconds later. Nathan closer to the worm and was about to stomp it to make sure it's really dead. but nurse Josephine stopped him. Nathan looked at her, he saw a big breasted but slim woman, her hair was long and tied up like a pony tail, her eyes was big like anime girls but still beautiful complementing her oval shaped face and small nose and thin lips. her white skin was like celebrities. Nathan blushed a little bit.

"Stop, let me check it first"

nurse Josephine was really curious about the worm. she wanted to dissect it to see the insides of it. but Nathan shook his head and said.

"nah, we already have one just ask Michael"

SPLAT!

red sticky goo splashed all over the floor. the worm was now unrecognizable.

"ohh"

nurse Josephine can't say anything else.

"plus, we have injured people up there, so you have to take care of them first, miss"

"Okay!"