I run along the ravaged path, my legs aching like crazy, trying my best to get away from the thing that is chasing me. Suddenly, the black night sky is illuminated by a flash of lightning, and heavy rain starts to fall the heavens. I can hear shouts and growls as the thing tears through groups of teenagers who decide it might be a good idea to go out in the middle of freak weather season. I'm running past a mirror shop now, and it gives me a chance to see what is chasing me. It's utterly gruesome, like something out of a horror movie. Three, thick, red legs support the most grotesque body on the planet. It's ribcage is split open with guts and blood pouring out, bloodshot eyes protrude from the centre of its body knobbly tentacles... The list goes on.
I can hear ground-shaking, teeth-rattling roars coming from not too far behind me. I'm so terrified that I shake like a mini earthquake. I can't stop pinching myself and telling myself that it's a dream, but I know it's not.
Suddenly, I feel a searing pain my in thigh. The thing had finally caught up with me.

TO BE CONTINUED...