Apokalya - Cap dark alley. 01

Alfaro was Esther, a young woman who was in the third cycle of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and lived with his mother in an apartment in the center of the city, just seven blocks from campus.

That morning Esther was getting ready quickly to avoid being late to class, put all the books that were available to her bag and some greenish patches of pale yellow surface, while his mother prepared in the kitchen a triple diet with cheese, tomato, lettuce and pickles.

Ah ... be late-I was saying as he left the bedroom shot toward the kitchen today ... I do not get -Continued as he took the hand of his mother three times.

Be careful, warned him seconds before the door was struck.

Esther and her mother were almost identical, the same height, same facial features and almost the same size of clothing, except that his mother was Esther chestnut and black jet had inherited from his father, who had never heard , rather than to utter some similarities to it.

He had come to campus running, waving as he left his briefcase and other students watched her move between them without the greatest difficulty, step hasten to see her teacher, a short man in a suit and brown bald headed for college. He headed for the nearest ladder and climbed quickly to the fourth floor.

I get out of breath but with victory, as the professor minutes after her admission, when he was already sitting in your wallet panting a little, gasp almost becomes chronic when the professor warned of an entrance examination.

All students protested but to no avail, as the bell rang off, when he retired to ventilate the room a bit.

'I think of something she had said her childhood friend, Julia, is the pop quiz, right ... -He said as he sat next to him I do not think is was so difficult.

Yes, but did not know anything, 'he said had a blank mind y. .. is sure my mother will not understand and when I show my notes, I'm dead.

Well ... -Was convincing myself to say I said 19.

-But if you only had 20 questions, instantly covering his face said 6.

'That is very pro-smiling to infect your mood.

Yes, but I'm not sure they are correct.

'Neither do I emphasized without success, as Esther was buried in her seat.

For when they entered the room again, realizing that he had formed a small group around a three folders, without being able to observe what was happening, Esther decided to melt in your seat while Julia is about fear of the group with her friend believed that he was abandoning.

-What happens whisper on several shoulders.

'It's the new student, the transfer will answer a colleague says that he has a headache, as we have said we'd better go to the infirmary.

Julia had told him his companion could tell the teacher who went out to take to the infirmary, to which he nodded his head, while two companions rose from his seat to leave the room.

Esther ignored this fact, because his mind was occupied with the test. For when the bell rang out, came accompanied by Julia, who had been thoughtful about the headache of new student, Karen.

-Do you think Karen had found he wondered as they crossed the pedestrian bridge.

I do not know, 'said without giving much importance to the issue.

It's not the first time is to be removed by headache he continued.

'Perhaps,' answered back without interest.

Well, remember that tomorrow we have practice, he said.

Julia stressed the head while sticking his face to hers, to say goodbye with a light kiss on the cheek and go in a corner, when Esther was found with a new clothing store, which had not yet opened.

The street was deserted, as they had been studying at the library after school, so it was easy to hear the gasp of her friend Julia.

As he ran to his aid, at the time he stopped because he had become calm, which lasted for minutes and the screams had become more pronounced, causing her to run to a dark alley, drawing from his briefcase a small bat, So hit the lustful thought, thief, crazy or was that he had met with her friend.

The street was deserted and in fact the neighbors to hear the screams preferred to close their windows to glance behind the curtain, although that side did not look anything more than an empty street. Only one dog growled the other side of the wax in a cowardly manner.

When Esther was found in a narrow, poorly lit by a distant streetlight her friend, who was lying on the ground and with a thick thread of blood that flows from his lips, or so I thought because of darkness.

About her friend lay a shadow almost human, to which Esther was thinking it was just a throw and I find it even more when distracted, with sharp teeth tearing the abdomen of her friend who was already dead.

He sat on his lap, his hands holding the ribs to eat the inside of this, his head was lost in the abdomen and sharp nose and thin, was full of blood, pointed and sharp teeth tore what seemed be part of their viscera, until it stopped noticing that I had company.

Esther petrifies the scene, could be seen as one watched from the dark hood, as he slipped from between his teeth, pieces of what once belonged to the body of Julia, the drops of blood trickled from his chin. Was observed that its hood protruded tufts of red hair short.

The strange being was lifted on the dead body to look better Esther who did small steps backwards while covering her mouth to keep from screaming, something that did not help when she wanted to pounce on. Esther ran away without being able to scream, her throat had closed and his feet became too flexible.

Can hit the streets deserted watch, stopped at the time that a taxi stopped abruptly in the period when touched with it, making it wobble in the air and then be dropped on the sidewalk.

The lights in the hospital emergency room blinded by the second, was lying on a bed of a square with thin sheets, the room was long and filled with thin beds separated by curtains at the sides, while the nurses were moving rapidly towards a newcomer.

Esther From his bed he could hear screams, groans and some desperate cries, the moment in which a table stood at the front, where two guards helped the nurses to put on the bed a man who had his legs torn, and the hanging right ankle nerves. Causing him to gag, something I try to hold over her mouth and fixing his gaze to his legs.

'I see you are well, the nurse-examined visually and can be removed.

Esther saw her address to the bed's side opened the curtain track, where a woman lay propped her legs open and held between his legs German dog was attached to its owner (as that meant) by the sexual apparatus.

Dazed and full of fear came to the hotel, the elevator was empty, which gave him time to mourn, as glimpsed his reflection in the mirror in this, crouched to the floor sobbing and covering her face. When the elevator opened only able to observe the narrow hallway filled with mahogany doors with numbers drawn, the walls are pale yellow and white ceiling and floor.

Although the environment was warm and bright, the lights did not serve only one who was at the end and he could not illuminate beyond the third passage, the way to the third door on the left and turning the knob is introduced within the department.

-These are hours of returning, he had accused his mother when he saw her enter.

'Sorry,' replied Julia amused me, will not happen again.

'I feel good I ask to see it pass by to his bedroom.

The department was small with only three doors, two bedrooms and bathroom, not counting the space that housed the kitchen, living room and dining room. Esther had entered the door on the left, leaving her mother absorbed and confused.

The next day he went to school somewhat murky, had left home half an hour more than usual, surprising to some colleagues who were already expecting to see her get into stride, sank in his seat reliving what happened that night and the strange feeling of not to speak, out of fear or nobody could believe him.

'Hey, you heard that it is a week-Rita emphasized the fifth cycle does not appear.

-Yes, your family and have posted his picture on missing people, he added.

Conversation that Esther wanted to participate, but the entrance of the teacher interrupted with the news reader would do a test, something that baffled more than half of the class, who responded tired of so many tests this week.

The test was developed without any discomfort, so when one partner begins to collect the evidence, while their classmates take advantage of the little time I had off the teacher and the teacher's future entry, which was fifteen minutes late or so was watching he could realize his wristwatch.

When I notice a group of friends back together to cover some folders, soon, so that she surreptitiously approached to ask about some men what was happening.

-Karen-It is a companion answered the transferred his head hurts.

Esther did not have much interest on your new companion, let that day was the only one who knew that Julia was dead, but still came to see their status, as he had remembered that her friend had been worried about her the last time we spoke, a topic that was not important then.

So the group decided to approach as near the companion was transferred, it could not discern his face, since he was sore and his head down, noting only his sharp chin and thin nose, surrounded by her short hair red.

What took her by surprise, as the latent image made him the night ... the same figure that was reflected in his companion, who had begun to look up at her, awakening in her panic and causing her back faces some of his colleagues who saw it disappear behind them.

He had been wandering down the street a few hours, unable to banish from his mind that image, when it is just steps from the alley where her friend was killed before his eyes, although he found her dead. Join trying to remember, because I had the idea that I had to know the details to give information to the police.

When night fell suddenly, Esther studied in the afternoon and usually took naps before going to school that day do not take it for what he thought was what kept her paranoid and out of it. The alley began to get dark when ...

Unable to raise his eyes began to foresee the worst, to be in front of this creature, which could only see his chin and red tufts protruding from its hood, causing her to originate the memory of his companion.

Retreated a few steps before you start running, at the moment that the dark figure disappear so that your shadow is superimposed on Esther, which ran the dead was awesome to find out, I felt like his legs were bent and that occasion as the throat is closed.

Until it fell from above a dead weight, was lying face down and the heavy breathing of the thing on his neck, could feel the weight on your back and dripped saliva that soaking the neck, making his last minutes most unpleasant of his short life.

His chest swelled with pain and tears made her eyes burn, so when the baby cries of pain emanating, pushing your body smelling of Esther walked away shaken hands and knees.

Watching the creature forced inches with a bright thread that hanged, thread it came from above, causing her to turn in that direction.

To see a female figure by the lack of light could not distinguish, beyond her short red hair, was pulling the string until the spectral creature screamed and became a strange black spot that was transformed in seconds into a light flash of white powder was left in the sidewalk.

-Who ... I ask who you are in a hoarse voice and sore to that figure.

Back-was-not what a firm voice said before disappearing into the shadows, Esther stood up and began his return to the apartment where his mother was waiting with a hot dinner on the table.

Next chapter: the burning house.