Waking Up To Doomsday 2

As soon as the nurse left Constantine's room, a shadow slipped in through the open window. This shadow was in the form of a long and slender snake-like creature. Its skin was dark red and rusty like dried blood and it had a sinister face, along with comical features.

I say comical because although this creature resembled a snake of some sort; it was quite bloated and swollen like a balloon, making it look like one of those balloon creatures children liked a lot.

The creature floated in the air away from the ground, but it was unknown if it was because of some innate ability it had, or perhaps because it was so bloated. These were the general characteristics of the dooms that had invaded earth from another world.

Dooms were a bunch of extraterrestrial creatures with dark red and rusty skin the color of dried blood overly bloated bodies and sinister faces. Apart from these three characteristics that all Dooms shared, there were no other unified similarities between different dooms, and each of them had different and unique characteristics of its own.

There were some dooms like this one now that resembled snakes and others that resembled rats. there were also humanoid dooms as well as aquatic-looking dooms. Each doom was different from the other apart from there them being big and red.

But although the dooms had very comical features, they were very terrifying creatures that possessed destructive powers. If not, they wouldn't have been categorized as the greatest threat facing humanity.

Till now, scientists have not been able to successfully study the dooms and they do not have any understanding of these otherworldly creatures. This is mainly because the dooms would disintegrate after being killed, leaving only a pile of dust as evidence of their existence. This has caused the dooms to remain a mystery to humans till now.

Still, it was not as if humans lacked total understanding of these otherworldly creatures.

After studies mostly carried out in the midst of battle and from studying some captured dooms, the humans had managed to learn a few basic information about the dooms.

For one, the size of the dooms directly correlated to how powerful they were. For example, a doom that was two meters in size could possess the destructive power of an RPG or tank, making them mobile weapons of mass destruction and ones that possessed intelligence. It would take a lot of effort for a human to be able to deal with a doom of this size.

Dooms that were between two meters and five meters in size were the most common dooms that came out of the space rifts all over the earth with the occasional ten-meter dooms being very rare. These dooms had caused an innumerable loss of life and property to the humans and it was only after a hard battle that lasted five months that the humans were able to repel the dooms that came to earth and block them on the other side of the rift.

Still, that was not the end of it. With the rift still being open, the dooms would occasionally launch repeated assaults on the humans on earth, with a few managing to breach the blockade set up on earth and infiltrate.

The nurse had mentioned previously that she had been awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of gunfire triggered when the soldiers resisted the invasion of the dooms. This meant that the night before, the dooms had attempted to invade earth but they had been repelled.

This doom in Constantine's ward must have managed to slip past the defense of the soldiers and infiltrated earth to eventually end up here after evading the pursuit of earth's soldiers.

The doom was no more than a meter in size and compared to the rare ten-meter large dooms; it was even rarer to see a doom this small. That means its power was very little compared to the rest. But it should be underestimated just because of its size. The destructive power of this doom would be comparable to that of a shotgun and it was very deadly to normal humans.

At this moment, the doom managing to enter Constantine's ward undetected was because it had the ability to shrink itself to become flat, enabling it to hide in shady areas and dark surfaces. Only after infiltrating Constantine's room did it return to its original size.

When the doom returned to its original size, it took a look at the door that the nurse had just left. The nurse's shadow could still be seen through the opaque window of the hospital ward but it was steadily moving away.

Confirming that the nurse had really left, the doom looked over to where Constantine was and prepared to attack him.

Nobody knew why the dooms were so prone to violence and destruction. After fighting with them for a long time, there has never once been an instance where the dooms tried to communicate with humans. Instead, they also sort destruction as soon as they stepped into Earth.

Some have speculated that this was the natural behavior of the race while others have thought that the dooms they encountered now were only low-level dooms that had limited intelligence and that like beasts they only acted on instinct which was to destroy according to their nature.

In any way, whenever a doom appeared, it would always be followed by carnage and destruction. Still, it didn't mean that violence was the only thing the dooms knew.

Just like any animal, when a doom felt threatened, it would resist, and when they were not able to win, it would retreat. Just like how this little doom did not immediately attack the nurse when it arrived outside the ward but waited until she was gone to attack the defenseless Constantine. Dooms were also capable of independent thought.

As soon as this little doom was sure there was nothing that could threaten it in the ward, it immediately launched an attack on Constantine.

But just as it pounced on Constantine, his body suddenly flashed with a powerful blue light, and a streak of electricity suddenly arced around Constantine's body, forming a protective net around him.

In the next moment, both the doom and the arc of electricity stopped, and neither party moved. That was because some muffled voices could be heard coming from the hallway outside Constantine's room.

One of the voices belonged to the nurse who had just left, and the other sounded like the voice of a young girl.

Although the voices were muffled, the words could still be heard clearly through the door of the room.

The nurse was speaking to the other girl saying, "You're here again to visit him even when it is so late. I just finished cleaning him up, so it should be okay for you to go and see him now. Also, the other girl has already been there, and she left a bundle of flowers for him by the window. I see you also brought another bundle for him again."

"Seriously, I don't understand why the two of you even go through all this trouble to come and visit him at different times. Since you two care for him so much, why can't you just come and see him together? I'm sure he would like that."

"Should I get another vase for you to put the flowers in it instead of throwing the others away? How long are you going to stay for this time?"

"you never stay long and leave after only a few minutes. You know you can take your time, right? you come so late so that nobody would disturb you so you can afford to stay a few more minutes. I promise to keep a lookout for you, so if anybody wants to see him, I will stop them. You can have as much time as you want with him without any worries then."

After the nurse finished speaking, there was a slight pause before the other girl finally replied.

"It's okay, there's no need to go through all that trouble. I will not stay long and will leave after a short while. I have other things to do."

"Sigh! if that's what you want." the nurse sighed in pity.

"What about the vase? Should I still get another one for you?"

"No need, I'll just throw away the other ones. He doesn't like peonies, anyway."

After that, none of them talked anymore but footsteps could be heard in the hallway once again as the nurse went on her way again and the other girl made her way to Constantine's room.

Realizing that somebody was making their way to the room, the doom inside Constantine's room hesitated for a moment. It looked at Constantine's body which was protected by a net of electricity before looking at the door of the room.

Finally, it came to a decision. Then shooting one last look at Constantine, the doom quickly made its way to the window before finally disappearing into the streets.

At this moment, the door to Constantine's room opened up and a beautiful Asian girl walked in with steady steps.