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terror. 
    Huge
grayish-green tentacles stretched out across the beach where they had just
passed, and a boiling mass of curling, humped forms was erupting from the
water.  Rebecca watched in horror as dozens of long, shining serpentine necks
arose from the water, each topped in a dragon-like head filled with gleaming,
gnashing teeth. 
    She ran as fast
as she could, clutching Isaac’s big hand in a death grip.  The fog was getting
thicker, and they didn’t see the cliff face until they slammed into it.  The
force knocked them both down and they sat staring in horror at the sheer
vertical rock that was blocking their escape.  It was as if it had just
suddenly materialized there. 
    Rebecca’s gaze
darted to the forest, only to watch in mute horror as the mist drifted away to
reveal trees banked by more cliff.  “Shit,” she whispered, glancing behind
her.  They had run right into a dead-end.  “Shit, shit, shit…”
    Isaac looked
behind them and scrambled to his feet.  Rebecca followed suit, a sharp pain
searing through her lower stomach as she moved.  Isaac hissed in pain beside
her, and she knew his scars were hurting too.  The monster had followed them
down the shoreline, and its massive heads were now closing in, blocking their
escape. 
    Isaac tried to
dash past one of the long tentacles and was knocked aside.  “Oh God!”  He lay
on the sand, writhing and moaning. 
    Rebecca dashed
to him and hauled him up, urging him back.  She couldn’t see any visible
injury, but he seemed to be in a lot of pain.  “The trees,” she shouted
urgently.
     They could get
some shelter in the trees at the base of the cliff.  Maybe the thing would
leave if it couldn’t seem them.  One of the massive heads darted toward
Rebecca.  She hit the ground and rolled, trying to get out of the way, but it
nicked her leg.  She scrabbled in the sand, blinded and moaning. 
    Pain lanced
though her body, ice cold and burning.  The physical pain was nothing though, compared
to the mental anguish she felt when the thing touched her.  She was overwhelmed
by an intense sadness, and wracking grief so strong that it immobilized her. 
This was why Isaac had fallen.
    Big hands
wrapped around her upper arms and dragged her roughly to her feet.  Isaac’s
face swam into her vision, clouded by tears of pain.  “Come on, get up!”
    She forced her
way past the anguish and managed to make her legs work again.  They ran toward
the trees, but a huge head darted down from above, hanging from the scaly neck
thick as her waist, blocking their way.  It lashed out, the knife-like teeth
closing on Isaac’s leg.  He screamed and fell, his hands scrabbling for
purchase in the sand as the thing began to drag him back toward the rest of the
heads.
    Rebecca dashed
forward without thinking.  She cast about for a weapon- a rock, a stick,
anything.  There was nothing.  Giving up on her search, she rushed toward the
head.  A tentacle lashed about, and it slapped into her side, drowning her in
pain.  She fought through it and kept moving toward Isaac. 
    When she reached
the head, Isaac was sobbing, his leg still clenched firmly between its teeth. 
She kicked at it, clawed at its face, desperate.  Her clawing fingers sank into
its vulnerable eye with the give of soft gelatin, and hot ooze dribbled down
her arm.  The thing screamed, rearing back and dropping Isaac in the process. 
The head whipped around wildly in pain.  Rebecca hurried to get Isaac moving
while that head was distracted, but its cry had brought the others darting
forward.
    She drew Isaac’s
arm over her shoulder and heaved.  They made their way across the beach,
dodging tentacles and howling in pain whenever one connected.  Finally, they
reached their goal- a big boulder buried in the sand.  Panting and sobbing,
they collapsed behind it, knowing that they only had moments before the
creature moved its body close enough to reach around the rock.  Tentacles
slapped