Senses invisible creatures

I wasn’t sure of anything, except that I could sense tremors on the walls that weren’t from the rushing water. It felt like there were hundreds of things heading in my direction from both sides, skittering feet on the walls moving with an unnatural speed. There were high pitched sounds coming from them. Was it a language or just a form of control.

My only choice was to leave the storm drain.

It meant that I was going to have to face whatever was out there with only my abilities as a slime and those that I had picked up from the humanoids. I focused and a moment later I could hear even better than before as ears appeared on my surface. A moment after that I was forming mouths filled with fangs. They didn’t really lead anywhere; my whole body was designed to digest food, but there was no need for an esophagus. It wasn’t like I needed to actually eat them or anything; just tear flesh and rend.

After all, they’d killed Agent Piper, another man with a wife and kids. I was going to have to start asking to be guarded solely by single men who were assholes at this rate.

I surged forward, forming eyes so that I could see what was happening. It was dark down here, and the things were coming. It took me a moment to find the next opening to the sewer, and for a moment I thought I saw something down further in the shadows, a gleam of eyes and white scabrous flesh.

A moment after that I slid out of the sewer.

There were three people waiting for me, and they were on top of something. Whatever the creatures were, their skin seemed to blend into the background; the only way I could locate them was the vibrations of their footsteps and the fact that the image wasn’t perfect. There was a blur as they moved. The people weren’t covered by the same effect.

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Reacting