Horrific Shorts: Zombie Edition-Chapter 886 Story The Hollow Hunger

886: Story 886: The Hollow Hunger

886: Story 886: The Hollow Hunger

The Apex Devourer was dead.

But the air still reeked of something wrong.

Leon kicked over a charred Stalker corpse, his heart hammering in his chest.

The explosion had ripped the Apex apart, its massive body now just smoldering meat and bone.

But Evelyn’s hands were still trembling.

Why weren’t the Stalkers retreating?

Mia scanned the area, gripping her pistol.

“Something isn’t right.”

Then, they heard it.

A wet, sucking noise.

The Apex’s remains twitched.

Flesh began to shift, congealing into a pulsing mass of tendrils.

From the gory pile, something stirred.

It wasn’t dead.

It was evolving.

The Rebirth Begins

Evelyn’s eyes widened.

“MOVE!

NOW!”

The survivors scattered as the corpse split open, revealing a nightmare within.

A new creature emerged, its form still unstable.

Muscle and bone snapped into place, its elongated frame stretching unnaturally.

The skull was no longer armored, but exposed, revealing a writhing mass of nerves.

And then, it opened its mouth.

A low, guttural moan filled the air—a sound that felt wrong.

A hunger beyond reason.

Reaper aimed.

“It’s reforming!”

Leon didn’t wait.

He fired a round directly at the exposed skull.

The bullet struck—

And the creature didn’t even flinch.

The Hollowborn Rises

Evelyn’s mind raced.

The Apex had been a perfect predator, but this thing?

This was something worse.

The Hollowborn.

The Devourer’s next stage.

It twitched violently, its claws extending into curved blades of bone.

When it moved, its limbs jerked unnaturally, as if the body wasn’t fully its own.

And then—it vanished.

Gone.

Lucas barely had time to react before the creature reappeared behind him, its claws tearing across his chest.

Blood sprayed.

Lucas collapsed, gasping for air.

“IT CAN BLINK!” Mia screamed.

The creature’s form flickered, like a glitch in reality.

Every time it moved, it left behind a trail of black mist.

Reaper tackled Lucas away, barely dodging the next strike.

The Hollowborn twisted its head unnaturally, its empty sockets fixating on Evelyn.

And then it spoke.

“You… are… food.”

A voice, but not a voice.

A hollow echo, as if something else was speaking through it.

Evelyn felt her body freeze.

One Last Shot

Leon fired, but the bullets phased through the creature like smoke.

They needed something stronger.

“Reaper, cover me!” Evelyn grabbed a shrapnel grenade from Lucas’ belt.

If bullets couldn’t hit it, then they’d tear it apart all at once.

She lunged forward, pulling the pin.

The Hollowborn blinked, reappearing inches from her face.

Its mouth split open, revealing a gaping abyss of teeth and tendrils.

Evelyn jammed the grenade directly into its throat.

BOOM.

The explosion ripped through the creature.

Its body distorted, flickering between forms, before collapsing into a pile of writhing black sludge.

For a second, it was silent.

Then, the sludge started moving.

Mia’s voice was barely a whisper.

“It’s still alive…”