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Time ceased to exist in Celina's world as she stood motionless, watching the humongous thing in front of her in the room. Apprehension took over her body system, and immediately she lost consciousness of what had just happened to her son because standing four meters away from her inside the room was a huge beast.
Celina stopped talking to Marcus and lowered the phone that was to her ear slowly in disbelief and then she backed up slowly until her back hit the wall behind her.
The room was now totally on fire. The fire burnt everywhere inside the room, and this time the fire was different from the dark flame that was invoked on Adrian. This new fire radiated from the tall and massive creature that was bending to fit into the room. It was definitely too big for the room, but Celina couldn't see it very well in the fire except for its red and angry eyes.
The creature had deep red eyes that were staring furiously at her. The creature was humongous; it is evident that if it stretched out entirely, it would have been extremely tall. It was covered all over in grey hair that had a taint of white and blue to it, but Celina couldn't see it well due to the darkness, and the fire that filled the room didn't help either.
She couldn't understand how the creature came about, although she knew it had something to do with the dark fire the other woman had summoned on her son. She knew the mysterious dark fire the woman called on Adrian must have raised a powerful and unknown demon from the Abyss.
Like something had vexed the creature, its eyes remained deep red as it narrowed them on Celina. Smoke from the fire was still on its body, fading away little by little, but the creature wasn't burning, although the room was engulfed in the blaze. Celina could see that the beast wasn't disturbed by the smoke burning and evaporating from its body.
The creature suddenly roared in anger, forcefully moving its face forward and towards Celina without moving any other part of her body. Celina shrieked and came back to reality at the sound the creature made.
She moved swiftly and ran straight for the stairs. She ran, literally jumping down to the last step and heading for the same door she was struggling to get open earlier. The creature broke through the wall easily and leaped to get a hold of Celina at the entrance door. Celina screamed and tried the door handle, the handle turned, and the door opened. She didn't realize it, but the man and the woman in the red robe left the door open when they stepped out. Celina ran as far as possible into the woods, oblivious of the fact that the black winter jacket she had on was unzipped. She had put it on while she tried to leave the house initially. She drifted to the left and right as she ran with her silk knee-length nighty moving in the direction of the wind. She heard the creature behind her as the beast crashed through the wooden wall and door of the house. It rushed after her, but Celina didn't stop. She only kept running farther and farther into the woods in the thick darkness of the Norwegian winter.
Massive sounds of wood breaking, and cracking followed behind her, and Celina turned gently but did not stop running, and neither did she feel the cold of the winter's night, though she was sweating profusely due to her running. As she looked back to observe the creature, Celina saw as trees parted on every single push the monster made by just waving its right or left hand, like the trees were little sticks. Suddenly, she noticed the creature leaped from the trees that parted. Instantly, she stopped running and, like in slow motion, watched as the beast jumped some meters above her. It landed about five meters in front of her and didn't skid or slip, it landed, and a gigantic sound resonated in the mountains where they were.
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