Ben+Henley

There were three men who were just living the average life. Having their five course brunches and driving to work with their lazy boy seats and in flight meals. They had their working man’s hour lunches. Once they all went home to their wives after a hard day of work, something strange happened. The three men’s names were Abdul, Shawn, and Jamal. Abdul was a white twenty seven year old who was good at fixing things like bikes and all that good stuff. Shawn was an African American and was good at things like math and puzzles. Last but not least Jamal was some type of middle eastern, no one cared to ask him what race he was because he was a little on the crazy side at times. These three men were all in their respected bedrooms when all of a sudden a bright green light filled their rooms. When the three men awoke they were together in a very dark room. So dark in fact they couldn’t see where they were for a few seconds because their eyes had to make a adjustment. After the episode of panic they all realized they were in some type of containment facility. Once they realized they were not home all three started to go back into a state of trepidation, when a raspy voice stopped them in their tracks. It was homeless Joe! He usually harassed the men when they would go to their local grocery store. The question everyone wanted to know was what was homeless Joe already doing here? So much had happened so fast that the three men were all in a state of immense shock. After a while the three collected themselves, and after a good hour of frantic questioning of one another and where they were. Once that was said and done they decided to aim their questions at the one man who stuck out like a sore thumb. Homeless Joe, they put him under intense questioning, the group agreed that Shawn would be the one to question him seeing as how he was the most intimidating member of the group. He asked Joe, “Where are we and what are you doing here?”. Homeless Joe replied with a quick “ I dont know, why do you think i would know!? ”. Shawn saw something in Joe’s eyes that said he was holding something back. Shawn decided to give Joe a good beating and see if he would talk. The darkness in the huge room was growing and Shawn proceeded with his plan for Joe. As soon as Shawn started pounding on Joe, a huge roar that no beast or animal on earth could make echoed in the room. It sent shivers up each man’s spine. At First Shawn didn’t pay any attention to the roaring while the rest sat there wondering what was happening. There was a second and even louder roar, and this one caught Shawn’s attention. He looked over and could only see the uncertain shadow coming at him, but he still looked for the source of the tremendous roaring. After it had stopped Shawn was about to land another punch on Joe when all of a sudden the shadow carried him away while he was screaming. It sounded as if Shawn had been put through the worst pain in his life and i’m sure that to this day that scream still rings in the ears of the three men who witnessed Shawn’s last seconds of life. After they thought the coast was clear Abdul and Jamal went over to Joe to ask if he was ok and apologized for Shawn’s behavior earlier. Joe replied with, “ You fellas know whats going on here? Cause i sure as heck don’t know that’s for sure. ”. After that Joe gave a chuckle cough laugh that seemed suspicious, but the two men thought nothing of it because he always seemed to do that every once in a while due to his poor health. Abdul had an idea on how to identify where they were. He started to examine the walls very closely to see if the material was anything he recognized. Since Abdul was fantastic at fixing bikes, and as a side job from time to time he would fix people’s bikes for cash and he got to be familiar with different types of metals. The one he felt though on the wall was unlike anything he had felt before. The “metal” he was feeling was really soft, almost rubbery to the touch. When he went to scratch the surface with his fingernail the metal jiggled. He wondered if it was mercury, but who would make and could make a wall of it? After examining the wall Abdul went over to Joe and Jamal. He explained to them, “ I don’t know where we are, but wherever we are someone doesn’t want us seeing where we are.” “Well wherever we are, we probably should try to find a way out because i don’t want to end up like that Shawn guy.”. So the three men proceeded to walk about and figure out their surroundings. They kept walking and at first they thought that what they were standing on was just a floor, that is until they walked about 50 feet and started to feel slime all over their feet. They thought it was the remains of Shawn from the shadow but it smelt more like a nasty dinner you would upchuck if you were not feeling well. Jamal got a horrible feeling in his stomach. He asked Jamal “When you felt that wall, was it soft at all?”. “Yeah! it was really soft! almost rubbery in fact.” Jamal knew immediately where he was, but he wasn’t quite sure how he got here. “Why do you ask?” questioned Abdul. “ Because i’m afraid we are literally in the belly of a beast.” Jamal explainded. There was a puzzled look in Abdul’s face, but he would’nt believe it “Whoa how is that even possible? We were not even eaten by anything!” exclaimed Abdul.