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I stood there, like an idiot, cause I saw something in the window of the building. It was hideous! Tall and slimy with large spikes running down it's back, clear to the end of it's tail. It stood like a bear, on two feet but slightly hunched and dominating. It turned its head and look out the window. Slime dripped down teeth and onto its curled hands. It's gaze sharpened.

At me.

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A large boom pulled me from my trance and I realized that me and that monster were not the only ones here. Other people were behind me, all of them in great danger. The building the monster was in were almost completely engulfed in flames, seemingly starting in random places and floors. Then I noticed something else.

People were still in those floors.

Screams could just barely be heard over the roaring fire and the helicopters engines. Kids, adults, elderly, friends, all trapped inside the burning building, most probably at the top. (Buildings like these are designed with facilities on the bottom, rooms in the middle, and lounging and other activities at the top for people to enjoy on their time off)

"Hey! Girl! Get down it's gonna blow any time!" Shouted the officer from the back. He was laying on the ground with his hands over his head, shielding the elderly lady from before.

"There are still people in there! I'm going in!" I shouted over my shoulder as I ran into the building.

"No! Get back here!" Shouted Sierra. I didn't even know she could shout.

I got to the doors, but couldn't get in. They were locked, but the windows were wide open. I guess we know how the monster got in. I walked past the window frame and into the hotel.

Correction on earlier, I meant monsters. Seven monsters lined the hallway in front of me, the only visible entrance to the floors above. I looked around for a weapon of some sort but found nothing. When I turned back around the biggest one, the one that looked at me earlier, had turned around and was heading towards me.

"Galmo Nug Buyde?" It said.

Where are the others?

"Who said that?!" I said. I looked in a circle, trying to find the person who said that. I could have sworn it was only me and the monsters on this floor.

" Galmo Nug Buyde?" It repeated.

Where are the others?

"Where are you? Show yourself!" I shouted into the burning fires. No reply.

"Dugnot. huytka negty veganomaro. FINA!" It shouted at me as it lunged.

Fine. Don't want to cooperate. DIE!

Then a bright light erupted from the corner of the room. A boy around my age ran out of no where and attacked the monsters head on. The only thing he had with him was his sword.

I jumped in to help with a glass shard, but he looked over his shoulder and shook his head at me. Smoke obscured his face, but I couldn't recognize him from anywhere. His hair was sort of shaggy and bounced around his head as he moved.

"That's not gonna do you any good here. Go up- AGH! Go up-stairs and get the people out now! Go!" She shouted as the monsters jumped on him again. He got them off him then turned back to them and stabbed one strait through it's stomach. I didn't stay to watch much longer, not that guts bother me, but people needed help too. And I'm sure the rest of us don't want to become a shish kabob.

So I bolted up the stairs, leaving my rescuer alone to fight the monsters.

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Most of the people I found were on the floors after 10, about half way up. A few people were on the floors under, from which I learned that each floor has a fire escape, but they all got locked. meaning people got trapped in before the fire even started.

I had to use a partial door frame to open all the doors, but I got them all open and everybody out. I cut my hands a bit, but the doorframe did a good job of breaking open other doors. Well, that is until the top floor.

I looked down the fire escape only to find it missing, and out of the floor below us was one of the monster's head. I flew back from the door and slammed it shut again. They were gonna come up the stairs soon, I needed to find out how to get these people out. Now.

I pushed everybody into one room and locked the door behind us, at least putting something between us and the monster. I turned and analyzed what we had in the room. There was a bed, a closet, a desk and desk chair, and a lamp. If I had my bag with me I could use my knife to cut lengths or sheets, maybe just enough to get them to a lower floor.

"Alright people, calm down!" I shout over the fire and the constant chatter. People turn and look at me, waiting for instructions. "I need a knife, or some glass! Just, something to cut these sheets into strips!"

"He-here. Use th-this." One of the younger subjects walks forwards and hands me their pocket knife. I thank them before they merge back into the crowd.

"OK. I need two people to undo those sheets and find me another extra sheet. Go!" I shouted. One girl ran to the closet to find more sheets, she came back with a good armful while another teenager undid the bed's sheets and handed them to me.

"I'll need another person to help me cut one of these sheets into, oh, abut 2 inch strips. Then someone else is going to tie them together to make a rope." They nod and the younger subjects pick who's going to do what. It's common curtesy here, let the older people sit back while the younger people do the work.

Even in these situations we stick to our manners.

The same teenager who gave me their knife sat down across from me and started cutting at the same pace I was. I could hear the monster coming closer. We weren't moving fast enough to all make it out in time.

"We need someone else tying, hurry!" I shouted. Three more people came forward to help and in 5 min we got them all cut and tied.

"Now throw it out the window and I'll tie it in place. Then your gonna climb down one at a time and enter into the floor it ends on. Whoever goes down first is gonna help the rest ok?" I asked. They all nodded.

"Good. Then I want you to leave. I wont be leaving with you so just go. You're all valuable so I need you to stay safe. Now go, they're getting closer!" I said. I throw out the rope and tie it to the bed-frame, wedging it in the corner by the window. One by one they all slid down the make-shift rope and into the last floor in it's reach, which I'm assuming was the 8th floor.

After everyone left I grabbed my trusty door-frame and walked out of the room. The monster was at the end of the hall, Staring straight at me.

"Wana fight now, do yah? The other's are gone so lets go." I said as I braced.

It snarled at me and got down on all four's, ready to pounce. Then it lunged.

I dodged the attack, and in return it dodged my swipe at it's neck. It's good, I'm not gonna lie. It was almost as good as those robots they have you train on in school. Little does it know I demolished those robots time after time.

I swiveled around again and stared it down. It crashed into the wall behind me, but it soon regains balance and turns back to me.

"Little rusty I see." I said as I smirked at it. It apparently understands me cause it did NOT look happy at that statement. But, I got it to jump at me which was all I needed.

I watched it soar through the air in slow motion. When it got closer I raised the door frame and stabbed the monster strait in the heart, the anger and hatred behind it's eyes slowly faded out and it went limp.

I let out a sigh of relief.

I saved the people up here, every last one, and everybody out there from the monsters. Now I just need to figure out how to get out of the building.

I shoved the monster off my body and pushed myself to my feet. I didn't feel like digging the door-frame out of the carcass so I said goodbye to my trusty weapon and walked down to the first floor, noting the damage on the way.

There were scratches on walls and doors, missing windows and doors swinging just by a hinge, beds on fire, and plants upturned in corners. The lobby was the worst. The mysterious guy's fight with the monsters left the place in absolute disaster. Dent's in walls, blood on the floor, chunks of the desk were even missing! That's when I realized the blood on the floor wasn't red.

It was black.

Black everywhere. The floor, the walls, all over the place.

But that means it must be on me too!

I looked down and I was drenched in it. My shirt was plastered to my body and my jeans were sticky. There wasn't much I could do about it now so I just walked out of the still on fire building.

I can only imagine how cool I looked after walking out of that building covered in blood! All of their faces changed in an instant. Some when from worried to relieved and others went from sad to happy. I saved everybody. And myself. I'm a hero.

" HEY I TOLD YOU TO STAY OUT OF THERE!"

Well damn.