Attacked and the mysterious situation

8:55am; Royal Heart College's Playing Field

Tolu withdrew from peeping between the pavilion concrete seats at Sam and the strange girl in the seating on the bonnet of the roof smashed black SUV. Sighing, with a tired look, he resumed his lotus position, picking up the book and pen from the back knapsack on the littered ground.

With another sigh, he put the pen to write on the book, using his laps as a sort of table.

-'Dear Journal, today appears to be another certain long day because Sam is talking to a girl, again!. It's hot too, freaking hot and I'm like why did I have to wear a hoodie today? Well... It's not I have any choices. My clothings are only the two pairs of school uniform, and this mufti that I'm putting on. And on, plus my two pairs of house wear clothing.

Anyways, I feel sweaty inside, dirty, and there are these annoying flies about.'- He paused writing to swat at a fly that had hovered dangerously close to his left eye.

I'm going to talk to Sam later to see how we can get the generator running to produce electricity to pump water. We only have water at the kitchen that we only use for cooking, so it's hard to even maintain personal hygiene.

To do that, we'll need to plan carefully because these monsters are like zombies. The slightest sound attracts them. And the generator... *Smile emoji*

The kitchen has or will run out of food soon. It's kinda ironic, seeing that this is a major boarding school. Probably, the school didn't stock up when schools were closed. But even at that, there ought to be some remaining sufficient food.

Maybe the kitchen staffs ate it? Right now, we are headed to the girl hostel to ransack any of the lockers for any beverages, cereals and stuff. Basically provisions. It's not up to one week since we all resumed and you know, we the boys have already finished 90% of our provisions already. And that was before Thursday. Hehe.

But girls are not big eaters like us, so we should find something if we break into their lockers, right?'-

Tolu chuckles , inhaling the stale air with closed eyes. Just then, the pavilion creaks overhead, attracting his attention. His eyes follow the sound of the creaks down to the collapsed part of the pavilion.

His eyes widen as stress lines snake across a bigger part of the once 50meter wide pavilion. And before Jack is said, the pavilion creaks and crashes down a huge chunk of it.

Loud noise erupts, welcoming the new debris as more dust rise into the hot afternoon air. Growls of hungered creatures rip the air, the heavy pounding of feet or rather paws ripping heavily on the ground and coming dangerously closer by the seconds. The sounds rock the air, like the heavy marching of many boots echoing about, bringing with it's advancement dread and panic. Tolu hears it, mouth agape in horror as he jerks up, throwing off his book and pen. Without second thought, his legs spring into life and double, each leg trying to outdo the other as he raced, frantically, towards the duo at the field.

And as he did, the monsters came.

-9:00am Wednesday, Same Location-

"Tolu Runnnnnnn..." Sam screams like a frightened child, urging his friend with frantic wave of his hands while Angela speechlessly watches, eyes widened in fear.

Tolu put all of his energy into the race. His body pounded, pain coursing through his body as he pounded his feet ferociously on the ground to gain more speed. His white flip flops were not helping now as he struggled to cross over to the Sam and the girl who looked ready to hightail it as soon as possible.

Yells and snarls become louder, as the first of the monsters pop out of a window of one of the classrooms. Or rather, smashes through.

The monster is scaly black, with a hideous blood stain grin of numerous wickedly sharp canines and a forked tail slipping out, standing at about 6-7feet tall. It has a reptilian snout and body, and seating on it's hideously scarred and scratched body, patches of clothings hanging by mere threads, from it's neck and hips as it stands on it's two sturdy, muscle rippling rear limbs. With red slit reptilian eyes, it tracks where the noise had arisen and just then, the others come, ranging with a slightly different color from the first.

They each track the source of noise, noting the falling dust. And when they see the escaping Tolu, they screech in joy, some even going as far as high fiveing each other.

Within seconds, their claws hit the ground and they Chase, like raptors, their tails dangle, swishing left and right as they Chase, trying to out race each other.

Skrreeech...

SMASH! The first monster is body slammed out of the way into a wall where it crashes it's hideous snout, pitifully groaning.

They race, dust rising, as the atmosphere becomes thick with monster stench. One bites the other infront of him by the tail, does a 360 swing and inadvertently swiping off the fellow monsters around it with it's victim.

*HUFF*

Tolu hastily halts his running, almost falling to the ground. With narrow eyes, he eyed the monsters as they wreck havoc to themselves, in a bid to get him.

"I...I...I can do...do this!" He huffs and hightails it, racing towards the slowly advancing but determined horde of monsters.

"Toluuuuuu..." Sam calls out and begins running towards Tolu, hands stretched in a bid to grab him.

"I can't leave it." Tolu replies , adding more speed to double away from Sam. The monsters too, notice this and stop their squabbling immediately as reptilian grins erupts from their snouts.

To think that their food would so easily run to them.

"Are you mad? What can't you leave behind?" Sam has crossed over to the half of the race course while Tolu is just inches away from the pavilion underside.

"My journal. I can't leave my journal there." He throws a glance back at Sam before hastily diving under the pavilion.

"No... Fuck the journal!" Sam cried out, water moistening the edges of his eyes. He comes to a halt,breathing heavily, as every monster screeches and snarls over the other to the underside of the concrete pavilion.

"Don't you want to li....eehhh...? Sam's voice is overshadowed by the tremendous crashing of claws and barbaric growls of once human growls.. A rumbling sound exploded, dust obscuring vision as another part of the pavilion chips off just as Tolu bends, grabbing hastily, pen, book and knapsack.

And in the moment, he rises, a clawed palm comes swinging dangerously, towards his neck.

"Aaaaaaarggghhhhh...!!!!" Tolu screamed, the whistling of the claws coursing through the air building up sick anticipation in him.

His guts tightened as the sharp smell of murky, putrid creatures hit his noses. In a few second, it was going to be all over for him and so, for him, it only felt naturally that he screamed off within him.

"Aaarggghhhhhh.....!!!!"" His eyes tight shut as he hugged his prized possessions to his chest. But what he expects does not come.

KKAARRRRAKTATAHOOOMMM!

The sound of grinding metal exploded into the air, defeaning Tolu momentarily. His legs buckle uselessly as he falls, knees and elbows down into the dust, his stomach twisted into a knot.

Instinctively his mouth opens and blood gushes out into the ground, the smell of heavy dust laden air, choking him.

-"Tolllluuu..." The faint urgent voice of Sam rocks his fading consciousness as a feeling of half weightlessness and a feeling of being half dragged resonated through his senses. He opens his eyes slowly but sees nothing but dust and squealing monsters. It is almost as if the mosnters are frightened and right before his eyes, under the little remains of the destroyed pavilion, is a huge imposing pillar of earth, with many jutting points that had speared into some of the unconscious monsters while the monster that had attacked him first, had it's body speared into half by the top of the Earth pillar.

The rest is dust and many shadows, which are monsters in confusion. Slowly, his senses return to his weakened and extremely fatigued body, and as they do, so does the bloodlust in the monsters return.

"Runnnnnnn...!!" It is Angela's time to yell as she runs towards the duo.

Sam is half dragging and half carrying the dazed but conscious Tolu across his shoulders. And because of this, he cannot make any noticeably advancement in speed, placing him at a disadvantage with the now gaining monsters behind him.

GROWLLLL...

SNARRRLLLL...

RAAARRGGGHHH...

The monstrous sounds explode all over the place, and echoing again. Sam tries to hurry but with Tolu on his back, he cannot.

"Angela, Runn... I.. can't... make... it." Sam admits resignedly as the monsters are only inches to him.

But before any claw can reach to him, the whole field explodes into a camphony of dust and earth sharpnel.

FWWOOOOOOOOSSSSMMMMMM...!!!

Sam grits his teeth, groaning as Tolu pushes off him. In the heavy dust laden air, they suddenly go weightless, and with sudden impusive momentum, they are flung diagonally, in the direction of the female hostel.

THUD!

THUD!!

They land, meters away from the mayhem,infront of the water tanks that supply water to the female hostel. In the distance, they see Angela, standing on the roof of a car, her hands clenched, hair whisking about as she yells.

With precise motion, she jumps off the car, and walks calmly to the confused Horde, just as the dust dissipates, killing intent in her eyes.

"Angela..." Sam yells.

She turned to look at him while clenching and unclenching her fist repeatedly. "It's okay, you guys go to the hostel and get what you need. I'll try to hold them off to cover you two."

"Hold them? That's suicide!" Sam yells back, new growls ripping into the air as monster begin to congregate, led by the noises at the fields. "That's like a battalion of monsters!"

"I know. Just trust me!" She says, as a huge wind exploded infront of her, knocking back the horde and flinging them into somersaults. "Go..."

Sam is hesitant as he watches Angela with keen eyes.

"Sam, let's go! She has powers. She can take care of herself." Tolu says weakly, slinging his knapsack over his shoulders. He grabs Sam's shoulders and turn him around towards the hostel.

"And thank you."

Sam nods in return as they both begin to race, totally ignored by the monsters around who are only attracted to the ongoing battle at the playing field.

In less than a minute, they arrive at the three storeyed block of girls hostel. They round the cream painted, red roofed U shape building to get to the innerside of the U and race to where the stairs would be.

"What?" Tolu and Sam chorused, eyes widened in amazement as they stare at the entire broken down flight of stairs covered in dust laden airs.

"What could have done this?" Sam frowned slightly while Tolu looked about.

"Monsters?"

"These monsters don't know how to climb. So how could then could they destroy a whole flight of stairs." Sam reasons, squatting at the rubble of broken steps at the alcove located at the inner side of the U shaped Hostel.

"Well..."

"If I'm right, with this fresh amount of dust in the air, then, seems like someone is trying to keep this hostel out of reach." He replied.

"But who or what would that be? Angela?"

"Wind control? This whole flight of stairs? I doubt! We'll have to find out. Tolu, can you do that earth thingy you did under the pavilion?" Sam asks his friend with a tilted head.

Tolu squatted too. "It just happened. I really don't know how to, but I guess I can try."