Chapter 4

Slowly and cautiously, they made their way past the abandoned workstations and overturned equipment. Broken glass crunched beneath their shoes.

Eva kept looking around, expecting something to leap out at them at any moment.

"Careful" Doctor Charles pulled her aside as she almost stepped on a long piercing broken glass.

"Thank you" she muttered and kept moving forward.

As they approached a particular laboratory, Eva slowed down and walked towards it.

"Eva wait" Doctor Charles called but she ignored him totally.

She stood before the thick glass containment, her eyes pierced through it. "Adam" she muttered with a gasp as she stared inside the containment. Except the creature inside the room could hardly be called Adam.

He was enormous. His body had grown almost twice his size. Long, jagged spikes protruded from his arms, shoulders, and back, while thick thorns covered parts of his legs and torso.

The transformation had completely altered his features, leaving behind a grotesque, demonic appearance.

Eva covered her mouth to conceal her tears as she watched the man she had just had a wonderful night with, standing before her in the body of a demon. The same man she said yes to on the Alter.

Adam's eyes wandered across the room, looking for an escape route out of the containment and then it fell on them.

Charles fearfully took a step backward, away from the glass but Eva boldly went forward. Placing her hand on the glass. Adam's bloodshot eyes met hers, and then he slowly walked towards her.

"Baby..." Eva whimpered. As she watched him approached her, her heart broke with every step he took.

Adam finally got to her. He stood before her, the thick containment glass separating both of them. He stared at her for a moment without any movement.

Then slowly, he raised his enormous hand and placed it on the glass, right opposite Eva's.

Eva shook her head as she stared at him. More tears ran down her cheek. "I'm here baby, I'm right here" she cried.

Behind her, Doctor Charles stood. He glanced around anxiously. "Eva we have to go" he said. But Eva didn't respond. Almost like she wasn't hearing him at all.

"Eva" he called again and stepped forward, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Please Eva, we can't stay here"

Eva shook her head, her tears falling faster. "I'm sorry Adam, I'm so sorry". She pressed her forehead against the glass.

"let's go" Doctor Charles said and took her arm, slowly pulling her away from the containment. Guiding her out.

"I'm so sorry..." She whimpered with her hands stretched backwards as she was pulled away.

Then Adam growled loudly. The sound so deep and viscous. His monstrous hands balled into a fist and then he slammed it into the glass. He suddenly threw his entire weight onto the glass, desperately trying to break it. His growls grew louder and more violent.

Doctor Charles and Eva were now on a run, scared Adam's roars would attract other mutants to them and they weren't wrong.

Charles suddenly stopped running. He paused on his track and Eva who was behind, nearly collided with his back.

"why did you stop, we need to move" She said with a sniff but he didn't move. His eyes remained fixed on something and then she followed the direction of his eyes and it fell on a mutant standing ahead of them.

It had four arms. Two protruded from its shoulders and the other two from its back. It skin was a grotesque mixture of gray and dark purple.

The creature tilted his head and then it's eyes fell on them and then it growled immediately and started coming for them.

"Run!" Eva screamed and they took off immediately as the creature lurched after them.

"Faster Eva!" Charles shouted as he glanced at Eva running behind him.

Eva clutched the baseball bat in her hand tightly as she ran. She glanced over her shoulders and saw the creature chasing after them, almost catching up with her and them she increased her pace.

They ran past a row of laboratories and reached an intersection. Charles abruptly took left and without thinking Eva took right.

"Charles!" she screamed as she ran. Her lungs burned but she refused to stop. She glanced over her shoulder again and saw the creature following her.

"shit!" Eva cursed and kept running. She took the next turn and became unlucky as she met a dead end. "You've got to be kidding me!" she shouted as she stopped running.

She quickly spun around and met the mutant standing before her. "Oh God" She gulped and clutched her bat. There was nowhere to run and she knew she was trapped.

Then slowly, Eva straightened her back and tightened both hands on the bat. Then the mutant roared and lurched towards her.

"I created you idiot! I'm not going down without a fight!" she screamed and raised the bat high above her head.