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With an enraged bellow of his own, Kyle exploded out of the elevator with his makeshift weapon raised high. He took in the situation at a glance and stopped in his tracks. The expression on his face faded from rage to shock to dumb confusion in the span of a second. The meaty thud of Cadmus's body hitting the floor snapped him back to reality. A sudden onslaught of fear left him frozen to the spot.

The creature's sheer mass was awe-inspiring. It easily towered over him, dwarfing him by a good meter. It's shaggy flanks heaved with a powerful snort that left him weak in the knees.

"Get back!" he cried as a young woman made an entirely inadvisable advance on the creature. He hefted his weapon once again, a foolhardy prospect in light of Cadmus's plight, but by good fortune or providence, some invisible force seemed to constrict around the creature's neck. It fell to its knees, bellowing piteously.

He took his chance. Siezing Cadmus by the shirt collar, he dragged him back into the relative safety of the elevator. The aluminum rod dropped with a clang as he frantically searched for the door controls. There weren't any. He looked up in abject terror.

"What the hell are you?"