Fear And Fire Short Story

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What is the most sincere feeling that human has? It is fear. Fear will always tell you whether you should fight or flight. Fear was the reason that we continued to make more and more fire during our early stages of evolution as intelligent creatures. Fire gave us light, light drove away beasts in the darkness, And even if the feeling of safety was brief, it was satisfying nonetheless. Then we made houses to keep the dangerous beasts away from us. They gave us feeling of safety that lasts as long as we remain in the house, therefore giving us comfort of being safe. But what if the fire will extinguish and the house will crumble down? That is when feeling of safety disappears and with it comes fear.

BAM!

One of the big pillars that supported the barriers crumbled down. The citizens looked at the tragedy and slowly, but surely they understood that only thing that would keep them safe were lights. But unfortunately, they went out. It was night now. That means that only 1 type of creatures would attack at this time, The Nightstalkers. Enormous creatures that were almost 10 feet in height, standing above any human in the city. They could open the mouths so much, that they could easily swallow an adult man's head. Their dark grey skin made them almost
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Broken furniture and glass, torn curtains, a deformed corpse, but no sign of human. It checked the whole room again and heard a little difference in the bedroom, small difference under the bed. It was clear that new prey was hiding under there. Nightstalker rushed inside the bedroom and flipped the bed, to reveal a women holding her child and crying. Nightstalkers weren't sapient creatures, they were predators, so they did not understand human emotions. Without holding back, it raised its right claw, ready to pierce the woman. Unfortunately for him, the room was illuminated with purple light from the

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