Chris walked out from the staff area of the zoo before heading toward his work area. It was sadly on the far end of the zoo, so he had to walk across most of the zoo. The zoo was still closed, and the morning crew had arrived to get the park ready for the visitors. Still, something felt off to him.
The hair on the back of his neck as if he was being watched by some predator. He stopped and looked around eyeing the far bushes which surrounded the tiger pens in the Asia section of the zoo. Still he paused and for a moment he thought he saw a pair of eyes in the bushes but he shook his head and when he looked back the eyes were gone.
“I need to stop watching those fake furry virus videos.” stated Chris as he took a long pull from his coffee cup and kept walking.
He had to pass under a small tunnel which passed under a highway toward an expanded area of the zoo. When he reached the other side he noticed a maintenance vehicle parked beside a small food court at the entrance to the African area of the zoo. The vehicle’s door was open but yet no worker was in sight. It was as if the worker had disappeared from the face of the earth.
“Creepy.” noted Chris as he moved toward the reptile house.
He walked past the outside alligator exhibit only to pause, all three of the zoo alligators where nowhere to be seen. It wasn’t cold last night enough to have them go inside for the night.
Yet another strange event as he paused and looked at the pen before heading inside. He walked in and walked into the semi-darkened hall. It was full of some fossils about the evolution of different reptiles. He turned the corner toward where the animals were only to stop, his eyes wide.
Broken glass covered the floor, which would be scary enough since there were dozens of dangerous snakes and lizards within this room alone. However the really scary thing was that looming in the darkness there were dozens of humanlike figures, but they were not human. Almost all of them had scales, some had no legs instead snakelike tails, others had tails even while walking on legs and all looked at him some smiling showing fangs. One of them a bare breasted women with a cobra like hood open her mouth to show long needle likes fangs dripping with venom.
“Get him.” Said one of them as they moved toward him.