7 - Ugly Rat

He was running, but he didn’t know why. He was so hungry. So fucking hungry. He never felt that hungry before, but oddly enough, he was hungry for human meat.

He didn’t know why, but his brain was screaming for him to find another person and bite the flesh out of them. And that’s what he was doing.

Running, looking around, trying to find someone to eat. He was angry too. Angry that they never helped him out. Angry that they always turned their heads to the other side, pretending he didn’t exist. Angry that they would beat him, even tho all he wanted was just some food. Angry that others would let him be beaten, in the middle of the day, and no one would try to intervene and help him.

Ugly Rat was running, but he no longer felt tired.

Only hunger and anger.

He arrived at a street, leaving the abandoned place he was in before, smelling blood and human meat nearby. He started drooling even more now with the sight and smell. He looked around. There were so many people running. Some were food. Others were like him. He knew it because they smelled different. A strong and rotten smell. He didn’t care tho. He started running towards a blond woman who was screaming for help.

But she didn’t get any help. Ugly Rat was faster and stronger now. He got up the blond woman in a few seconds and bit the side of her neck.

He got in ecstasy when the flavor of the blood and flesh came into his mouth. He had never tasted anything so good in his life. He kept biting and tearing her flesh around, ignoring her screaming and useless punches.

He was in paradise, enjoying the most delicious food in the world.

And then, just like that, the taste was gone. The woman lay there on the floor, lifeless for a few seconds. Then she opened her eyes. They were red.

She and Ugly Rat stood up and started running in opposite directions, searching for their next victim.

He was amazed by that new life. He went from being an innocent person, living on the edges of society, to a predator.

How long was he doing that, and no one dared to try to beat him this time? They were the ones running from him now. They were the ones being beaten by him.

He looked up at the sky and hallowed loudly.

The others who smelled like him did the same, and then they went back into their hunting.

***

It was raining a lot now, but neither him or the others like him cared about it. All that he wanted was to chase those bad people, to jump on top of them and eat their flesh and drink their blood.

And that was what Ugly Rat did for hours and hours. He never felt so happy in his whole life before, running after some new victims.

They were hiding from him behind a car, but Ugly Rat was smarter than them and spotted the guy and the woman.

When the dumb couple noticed they got spotted, they started running.

They were fast, and Ugly Rat wasn’t able to catch them in time. The couple found a door to a building and went inside.

Ugly Rat screamed like an animal. He tried to order them to get out of there, to accept their destiny, but he couldn’t produce words anymore. All that came out of his mouth were sounds, as if he was a crazy dog or wolf. And that made him angrier.

He started banging more and more. He started running and throwing himself against the door. Ugly Rat kept doing that for a long time, until his body stopped moving and he didn’t know why. The only thing he could still move were his eyes. He looked around, and he noticed others like him had stopped as well.

He was hungry and angry. He wanted to keep banging on that door until it was down so he could eat those two humans that thought they could hide from him.

But his body gave up on him. His eyes kept scanning, searching for any signs of movement, but nothing changed.

The others started howling, frustrated like Ugly Rat. They wanted to hunt humans as well. They wanted to eat. They wanted to get rid of that hunger that seemed to never go away but only to get worse and worse.

From his right side, Ugly Rat saw the moon, and his eyes got hypnotized by it. He never noticed how beautiful that big white ball, floating in the sky, was.

So beautiful.

Ugly Rat sat there, not able to move at all, for hours. He didn’t see any other food for all that time as well.

When the sun showed up on the horizon and the darkness was gone, he felt his body coming back to life again.

If he was smart, if any of them were smart at that point, they would have realized the night, the darkness, prevented them from moving. But they only wanted to eat. Because they were always hungry.

And angry.