What Sera saw, she will remember until the day of her death, which might be closer then she would have liked.
There in the sky she saw a human figure with huge, graceful, white feathered wings. The creature could've been breathtakingly beautiful, if it wouldn't have made Sera feel so much dread.
She didn't have to check her watch to know that the heavenly monsters Class is at least a 4, designated as a Horror.
Every monster below Horror is a special kind of terrible being in and of itself, but only after the 4th Class do they start emitting fear as an aura.
Sera was rooted to the ground and couldn't look away from the terrifying creature.
The said creature was scanning the ground searching for something or someone. While looking around it's eyes lingered on Sera for a split second.
She looked into the creatures eyes and the next second, she immediately went as pale as a dead person, fell on her knees, and started vomiting and trembling. After everything in her stomach came out, she fell on her side and let go of her bowels as well.
Still trembling and lying in her own vomit and waste. She held on for a couple more seconds, then she passed out from the fear.
In a minute or an eternity later, she woke up to the sounds of huge explosions.
The fear still lingered but somehow it seemed to be suppressed for now. Slowly getting up on her knees, Sera turned toward the explosions.
There in the sky she realized what made the sounds and she immediately went pale again and would've vomited if there were anything left in her stomach. The sounds weren't explosions at all, just a fight between a Horror and a Stellar.
The scene in front of her was equally amazing and terrifying. Seeing the fully shapeshifted Stellar was as bad as looking at the Horror, but neither came even a little bit close to the terror she felt looking into the deadly angels eye.
While Sera was distracting herself with these useless thoughts, she finally arrived at her house's door, well at least what's left of it. Seems like some monster went through here, and hopefully left.
She wasn't that afraid for her parents, they were probably already in a private or public shelter somewhere close to their workplace.
Sera went in and making as little noise as possible approached the basement door. It was made from some monster material since, those were way tougher to get through than any mundane metal.
She went to the terminal next to the door and typed in the code. A second later the terminal lit up green and the door silently opened.
Going down the stairs she heard the door close and after getting downstairs, she closed another even heavier door to the stairs, after that she began looking around the place.
The basement was pretty big with it's own bedrooms, living room, kitchen, bathroom and of course armory. She quickly went through the supplies to see if everything is fully stocked, but she shouldn't have worried since her parents were so thorough. She grabbed one of the railguns from the armory, loaded it and went to the living room.
A railgun wouldn't do much against anything above Tainted but she felt safer holding it.
As she sat down on the couch and let out a shaking breath, her eyes become watery and she started crying. The adrenaline was leaving her system and the realization of the whole situation dawned on her.
The world which she knew and loved has came to an end. Her friends are probably dead. She couldn't even contact her parents, a Gate Opening disrupts any network communication.
She wanted to just sit there and cry in her self despair, but it seemed the world had other plans for her.
Above her the earlier explosions could be heard again but from way closer. It took a minute for Sera to realize what was going on.
'These assholes are fighting right above me.'