People fled in panic and fear.
The Abomination upper body was vaguely humanoid—He was tall, with pale, veins skin stretched over his limbs.
The monster was blind, but its ears is really sensitive that twitched at every sound.
Below the waist, it merged into a mass of tree roots.
Roots lashed out, impaling one passenger through the chest, wrapping around another's legs to drag them screaming into the mass.
"HELP!!" a woman cried, crawling at the floor as the root wrapped her ankle, pulling her back.
The monster let out a guttural laugh, its voice a rasp of creaking wood. "Feed... feed..."
Another root burst through the carriage wall, it shaterred metal and glass, wrapping around a fleeing man crushing him with brutality.
The train carriage had plunged into a nightmare, the once-ordinary space now a slaughterhouse for the Abomination.
Rémi had barely registered the first scream when the door to the next carriage burst open.
Passengers from there flooded in, faces were full with terror, but the roots was faster.
They lashed out again, coiling around ankles and dragging victims back in the mass.
"No—please, God, no!" A man wailed as a root pierced his leg, pulling him under the seats where more tendrils waited to tear him apart.
The monster's "mouth"—a jagged maw of wooden teeth—let out a rasping hiss, like branches scraping in wind, as it "fed," roots pulsing with absorbed blood, growing thicker and more aggressive.
Rémi's heart pounding in his chest, a deafening drum that he feared the creature could hear.
He ran to the next carriage and decided to hide behind a seat, he doesn't have enough time to close back the door.
The monster entered his footsteps alone enough to make Rémi heart pound faster.
Rémi peeked through a gap, his breath ragged.
A woman nearby sobbed quietly, trying to stifle it with her hand—too loud.
The tendrils snapped toward her, wrapping her throat in a chokehold.
"Help me..." she gasped, eyes bulging, before the roots yanked her into the mass, her body disappearing with a final, muffled crack.
"Oh God, oh God..." Rémi thought, sweat soaking his shirt. "It's sensitive to sounds!"
He fumbled for his phone in his pocket, fingers trembling so badly he almost dropped it.
The screen lit up—heart skipping as a root hovered nearby, sensing the faint vibration."Loki... should be able to help..."
Rémi typed a quick text, thumbs flying: "Loki dude answer pls, Half human half tree monster is killing everyone, help pls!"
In the grocery store across town, Loki pushed a cart down the frozen foods aisle, eyeing some meat.
His phone buzzed in his pocket.
He pulled it out, reading Rémi's message as he raised an eyebrow. "Again? This guy's a magnet for trouble."
He typed back casually: "Relax. Nothing to worry about. Use the necklace I gave you. You'll be good."
Back on the train, Rémi's phone vibrate loudy in the silence.
A root twitched toward the sound, slithering across the floor.
Rémi's breath caught, his body freezing as the tendril inched closer, probing the air.
The monster's head tilted, "listening" for more.
"Shit, shit—too loud!" He silenced the phone with a swipe, but the root was feet away now.
A passenger in the next row shifted nervously—crunch.
The root lashed out, dragging them away with a scream that covered Rémi's gasp. "That was close!"
He reread Loki's text: "Use the necklace. I got it 3 decades ago."
"The what? Wait... 3 decades ago? How old is he?" Then he remembered the odd pendant.
Loki had gave him weeks ago during one of their hangouts, saying "Keep it. Might come in handy."
It was a simple silver chain with a small, rune-etched stone.
Rémi pulled it under his shirt, clutching to it.
As the root crept even closer—now inches from his shoe—a faint warmth spread from the necklace.
The root paused, tendril waving blindly, then retracted, reacting away toward another faint noise.
"No—no, please!" they begged, dragged kicking and screaming into the writhing mass at the monster.
"Not enough... more... more!! Feed the forest!!!" The Abomination barked in dissatisfaction.
Rémi's hand shook as he gripped the necklace. "Loki said use it... but how?"
Desperation took over him—he clutched the stone tightly, whispering, "Please... work."
The rune glowed, a golden light emanating from it, revealing his hiding spot.
The light burst outward in a radiant flash, the air shimmering as an ethereal figure materialized beside him.
It was an angel-like being, majestic and divine—two luminous wings flapped from its back.
A halo hovered above his head, a ring of pure gold radiating. It wore an ethereal armor, plates of gleaming white and gold.
In its right hand, it held a divine spear, the shaft of polished silver topped with a blade that hummed with celestial energy.
The angel turned its head, glowing eyes—towards Rémi.
It has a voice of a melodic echo that calmed his racing heart. "Fear not, bearer. I am summoned by the artifact's call. You are under my protection."
The monster's roots recoiled.
Passengers who were still alive gasped, some whispering "An angel...?"
"Divine is my Judgement." The Angel muttered against his lips.
He flapped his angel wings opened, feathers fell through the air.
The angel stepped forward, spear raised, its wings spreading wide to shield the carriage.
Roots from the monster lunged at the being.
The angel swung his spear in a vertical arc, the blade slicing through them with bursts of holy fire that reduced them into ash.
The angel raised the spear once more as the tip of the spear immited intense amount of mana that's about to explode the whole carriage.
"Incinerate." it intoned, divine energy rippling outward in waves that purified the air.
"Hey wait there's still people here!!" Rémi yelled towards the angel his voice was full of worry.
The angel didn't seem to hear Rémi's words as the energy continued building up.
"I said wait—Shit! Everyone run to the next car!" He shouts, warning the passengers who were still in the carriage.
All the remaining passengers ran towards the next railcar including Rémi however, some of them didn't make it.
The angel's divine spear emitted with energy so strong that it evaporates the whole carriage in a fraction of second.