Devin rubbed his restless eyes as the the car quietly hummed on the road, his radio wasn't getting any reception out here in the forest roads and the only sound he could make from it was cracking static.

The clock on his digital radio clicked to 3am, he has been driving for 6 hours now with still two more to go. "Why did she have to live all the way out here"? he thought.

As he continued trying to focus on the road, green radio light painted his face as his car headlights dimly lit the cracked pavement, a tall creature lumbered out into the road...

Devin hit his brakes with a loud *screeeeech*, it stood there menacingly staring at him. It's arms and legs were the same length, with its knuckles barely touching the road. It wore what appeared to be a black business suit with a red tie, but the most unnerving thing was the face...

Oh God its face, there were no features! It had no mouth, no eyes, but it was looking Right at him...Devin's heart wasn't sure if his mind was blurring out the face because of how terrifying it was or if it truly didn't have a face, but regardless his heart was pacing miles inside his chest.

In a panic fit, he slammed the stick shift into reverse. The car engine made a puttering sound, Devin looked at his gauges as they all plummeted to left, car lights flickering with a failing electric sound. With each flicker, the creature appeared closer to the car. Zzzt Close...zzzzzt closer...zzzt so close...zzzt it was right in front of the car and the lights completely shut off with the car.

Devin screamed and blasted out of the car door and ran away from the car down the road, he briefly looked behind him as he ran due to fear and curiosity...it was gone.

He felt stupid, "but how could he have imagined that"? he thought. He jogged back to the car...dead. "Damnit" he said under his breath, and went to open the trunk of the car where he grabbed his flash light; he began walking further down the road to see if there was somewhere to get help.

His footsteps quietly clapped on the pavement, rocks crunching on his steps, crickets and other critters echoed throughout the dark night. Devin heard twigs snap on his right, he quicky flashed the light in the direction of the noise...there it was!

Devin felt dread run over him so he began running, twigs and branches snapped after him. After a few minutes of running he didn't hear the snapping anymore, "Is it gone"? He turned around...it was hovering a few inches above the road after him in a slow haunting creep, black tentacles reaching out after him.

"Oh God"! Devin ran as fast as he could from the tentacled evil, but no matter how fast he ran, he felt like the creature was right behind him. Occasionally glancing behind him, the creature was getting further away with each glance, but the tentacles were right on his heels!

A few more minutes of what felt like running for eternity, a gas station glowed around the corner road. "Thank God"! He looked behind him one more time, it was gone...

This made Devin feel more dread and ever, "It could be anywhere"...He ran for the brightly lit station, a single car was at a fuel pump with the lights still on. Devin broke through the glass door that let off a bell *ting*.

No one was behind the cash register, the vehicle left idle had no owner around either. Devin stood confused and scared, ceiling lights and fridges buzzed quietly. A radio on the employee counter began frizzling and crackling like his car radio did...

Then, the ceiling lights began to flicker as well until they completely blacked out. "No, no no no". Devin looked out the store window and seen the idle car shut off, and by the car stood the creature, staring at him again.

He felt the dread wash over him, and he ran behind the cashier counter to see a strange black mass on the floor, with an employee ID still attached to it..."Holy crap, I don't wanna die". Under the register tucked away, was a shotgun.

Devin quickly snatched the weapon, with prior military training he checked the weapon, 5 rounds. He chambered a shell with a loud *chick chuck*, collected the ammo box and snapped an additional round into the loader.

He kicked the door open, aimed at the being closing in on him and fire *Shbwargh!* The thing didn't event flinch, he loaded the gun again *chick chuck* and fired a second shot in it's chest *shbwargh!* The shot echoed throughout the night, before he could pump a third round, a tentacle grabbed the gun and ripped it from his hands and tossed it off to the road.

Devin braced for impact as he closed his eyes...nothing happened. He opened his eyes, a sigh of relief passed him. He quicky turned to his right and he looked right into its missing eyes for a second as he was ensnared into the black abyss...