Chapter 2

Once the creature had finished eating Maisie Winter's dead body, it lowered itself back onto the ground now resembling an actual snake. It's dark black eyes glinted in the light that was pouring down from the top of the stairs. It hissed and started to make its way up the stairs towards the rest of the Winters family.

Mrs Winter screamed and ran far away from the basement and put the front door closely followed by Leo Winters and Mr Winters. Once outside, they locked the door and had time to calm down and discuss the events that has just happened. It appeared that no one had heard them screaming so they sat on the bench in their front garden and talked.

'What was that?' Leo Winters asked disgusted.

Mrs Winters just broke down crying, her only daughter had just been killed by an unknown creature.

'I have no idea son' Mr Winters said solemnly too shocked to cry.

'It look like and alien, nothing I've ever seen before.' Leo remarked.

Mr Winters thought for a moment before deciding that it would probably be best that they consult a scientist about this and have the creature properly identified.

The Winters family were all absolutely distraught about the death of their daughter/sister but ultimately decided that they couldn't mourn until the alien-like thing has been taken care of.

Mr Winters decided that he wouldn't go back in the house so he took his phone out of his pocket and failed the local science number.

*RINGING*

'Hello science department'

'Hello we have a problem'

'Yes what is it'

'Well there seems to be a man eating alien like thing in our basement'

'What?'

'Yes'

'Ok sir, now could you describe this thing for me please.'

'Ok we'll I couldn't see much but it seemed to be a snake like thing that can use it's tail to stand up and it had water coming from it's mouth and black eyes I believe'

'Ok sir are you joking'

'No I am not'

'Ok address please and we'll be there soon to take a look at this "creature"' The man on the phone laughed sarcastically. Mr Winters gave the address and sat back down with his wife and son.

Moments later the science department arrived and greeted the Winters. Mrs Winters handed them the key and they unlocked the door to the house and stepped inside. They looked around the entrance and couldn't see anything so they stepped further into building and started to look around. The scientists couldn't see anything strange that looked like to wasn't supposed to be there so they climbed up the stairs. Mr and Mrs Winters followed them while Leo waited outside the house following the instruction his parents had given him. Leo had wanted to follow them but he was told he wasn't allowed.

Inside the house, everything was eerily quiet except from the sound of shoes tapping on the wooden floor. One of the scientists opened the door to a room, the one that should've been Maisie's and went to look under the bed.

'There's nothing under here.' He remarked but, just as he said that, they heard a loud hiss coming from the door of the room. Quickly, they turned around and screamed, horrified at the sight of the creature in the doorway. The beast lunged forwards and attacked Mrs Winters. Everyone ran into the corner of the room in order to try and escape the creature but, there was no escape. No windows or other doorways in the room to climb out of. No cupboards to hide in due to the family still settling into their new house. As the creature finished up Mrs Winters body, it crawled around the room and dived to attack Mr Winters and one of the scientists. As the only person left in the room, the second scientist, watched in horror as 2 more people were eaten.

Knowing he was next, he made a run for the door of the room only to be stopped by another, equally large alien. He sank to the ground in fear as the alien moved towards him and finally latched its fangs onto his ankle and his world faded into black.

Leo Winters had heard the screaming and immediately tried to find the key to lock the front door. Realising that his mum had taken the key into the house, he ran away from the house as far as he could. On his run, a thought occurred to him that maybe if he told the police about this, they'd be able to help him.

Sprinting, he found his way to the nearest police station and ran in.

'How can I help you sir?' Asked the man at the front desk.

'Aliens - In - House' Leo panted out, unable to speak properly due to the long run.

'Sir I very much doubt that.' The man said frowning at the boy. Leo just shook his head out of breath and tried to convince the police officer that what he was saying was true. 'No I swear it's true my parents and sister were killed by it.' He exclaimed.

'Right well, I'm very sorry for your loss but there is no such thing as an alien. Now if you don't mind, this is a very busy place and we don't have time for lies' Just as he was saying this, he looked over the top of the boys head to see a long snake-like thing with huge fangs and beady, black eyes slithering down the pavement. Suddenly, the creature hooked its teeth onto a small girl's calf. The girl fell to the ground faint and immediately died. The beast started to rip the flesh from her body and eat it, leaving her blood splattered-skeleton laying on the pavement.

'Oh my gosh, that is an alien' The policeman whispered in horror from the scene he had just witnessed. 'Stay back everyone' He shouted confidently as he aimed his gun at the beast and shot it. The bullet flew through the air and when it hit the creature's skin, it just bounced straight back off and onto the floor. 'Oh no' The police officer whispered.

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I want to make a new cover so I will be working on a few.