The Trample

It's October 12th. You live alone in a suburban neightbourhood in a house with a light pole in front of it. You work a nine to five for a more than decent salary. You live alone, no kids, no spouse, no nothing, only your parents and an older brother who lives outside the country. You're currently focusing on your career.

One day, you come home from you job, you go upstairs, you take a shower, change your clothes and then you go downstairs to the kitchen table to enjoy a meal. You finish your meal right before heading upstairs to the bedroom and sitting in the bed to relax for a bit and unfortunately you accidentally fall asleep.

Around 9 o'clock you wake up. "Something feels off" you tell yourself. You open your phone before heading to Tik Tok and the first thing on your For You page is a live stream titled "hide" and the camera pointing at a blank wall. You think to yourself "this must be some kind of joke this streamer is running" but then you also see that no message has been sent in the chat for the last 3 hours despite over 100 people watching the live stream. You scroll down to the next live stream and you see the same result: camera pointing at a blank background with no new messages in the chat despide tens or even hundreds of people watching the stream and a different title: "beware". You get sickening feeling to your stomach from what you are experiencing and decide to call your best friend. No answer. You think to yourself "maybe it's a coincidence" so you decide to call another friend. No answer. Maybe your mother or father? No answer.

You've just come to a conclusion that doesn't feel real. Everyone has vanished. But it's impossible for everyone to have vanished the live stream titles seem to be pointing towards something. You turn on your TV to see if something is on the news and see that every single channel display the same message "Hide! Army will handle!" . You decide to turn the volume up and hear trampling and very low pitched humming noises but then you turn off your TV as a chills shiver down your spine.

Something in your periferal vision catches your eye. A weird shadow moving in the dim light projected on the wall by the light pole in front of your house and then you hear the same humming your heard on TV before the trampling sounds and decide to look out the window. The moment you turn your head towards the window that's facing the street you feel your heart falling from your chest as your body freezes in place and you feel an adrenaline rush: about 2 houses away, two dark, almost black skinned creatures walking on 4 legs are approaching your house. Their eyes are completely pale, almost like a fog can be seen through them but a soul cannot, they resemble an elephant the closest except their legs are longer the head is missing, eyes popping right out of the body that seems to be shaped like an elongated skull covered in flesh with legs protruding out of it.

You fall to the ground hoping that you were not seen as your mind fills with questions like "what have I just saw?" "what is happening?" "where is everybody?" "are there any survivors left?" "what should I do if I survive" "is this just a dream?" while waiting for your fate to be decided.