Today's #flashfiction #AMatterOfImportance

“And you can quote me on that one.”

The Raven* #quote

Today I looked important. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

A Matter Of Importance

        “Yip! Yip! Bark, bark! Woof, woof!” The familiar sounds of dog barks accompanied the familiar sounds of thunder and rain as the storm formed over the city. The citizens found it odd as no weather forecast mentioned a storm and the day showed nothing but clear skies. While domesticated animals freaked out, even things like the normally complacent cats hissing and making a ruckus, the wild animals that made their home in the nooks of buildings and alleyways started to run from the city.

        Pigeons and other birds flew far away and even cockroaches emerged from the sewers and flooded the streets to leave the city. Traffic came to a standstill as people watched in a scared standstill as bugs poured from the underground and ran like people from a fire. The bugs did take it to bursts of flying when they could but it seemed like they were conserving energy for a long migration far from the storm.

        Lighting from the storm became frequent and stretched out in the shape of hands with long fingers. Hail came from the black clouds of the storm along with piles of hot ash. When these far more damaging elements became thicker and thicker the citizens themselves began to panic and either try to flee themselves or hide away in their homes. Heavy dust storms emerging from the clouds and surrounding the edge of the storm and the city prevented travel. Too close to the edge and it became a wind violent enough to tear anything to pieces.

        In the middle of the storm a red light appeared. A creature with a strange, ghostly body and many arms, legs and other appendages difficult for a humanity to understand emerged. After it several others followed. They were all massive, each around thirty foot and as they moved through the air it boomed with the force of their movements.

        “Inter-dimensional travel is such a pain isn't it?” One of them said in their language.

         Another responded, “Quite. Now lets check out the sights of this world. Oh my, looks like we damaged an animal colony of some sort when landing. Told you to watch where you set our destination point.”

         “Whatever,” the first one replied dismissively.