The Creature Walks Among Us

PROLOGUE — AFTER THE BROTHERHOOD

The Brotherhood is scattered.

The cure for Lawrence Talbot worked—but Prodigium did not stop. It adapted.

Tyler Holt finishes reshoots for Atlantis: Lost Secret, finally wrapping the underwater sequences that haunted him since the Black Lagoon. Post-production begins. Sound. VFX. Editing. 3D conversion.

Closure. It doesn’t last. A voicemail from Derrick Holloway plays in silence: His parents are dead. Executed by Prodigium.

Tyler can’t make the funeral. With Lena Watson, he chooses flowers instead—white, simple, final. He writes only one sentence:

“I’m sorry I can’t be there. Prodigium is going to fucking pay.”

ACT I — PHASE ONE OF EXTINCTION

Somewhere far from Florida— Vazec initiates Phase One of Prodigium’s global plan.

He dispatches Dr. William Barton, head of Prodigium’s science division—a brilliant, unstable man who believes monsters are not curses, but unfinished designs. Barton leads a strike team into the Black Lagoon.

They capture the Gill-Man. Alive. Bound. And brought to Florida International University, whose Science Center has been emptied, seized, and converted into a black-site laboratory.

Barton’s wife, Marcia, is brought with him. Not as staff. As property.

ACT II — THE EMPTY CAMPUS

Back in Florida, Tyler returns to familiar ground.

FIU is abandoned. Classrooms stripped. Hallways silent. Security replaced by armed cultists. Prodigium banners hang where diplomas once did.

Tyler realizes the truth: The Science Center is Prodigium’s lab. And the Gill-Man is inside.

Lena wants in. Tyler refuses. He will not let her die for this. He goes alone.

ACT III — SILENCE AND STEEL

The campus is fully guarded.

Tyler needs a distraction—something silent. From the set of Atlantis: Lost Secret, he still has a prop machete.

The plan is brutal and precise: He fires the machete with a bow. It embeds itself in a cultist’s chest. No gunshot. No alarm.

Tyler retrieves the blade. Moves again.

The body is discovered. Security tightens. Tyler keeps moving.

ACT IV — THE ARENA

Just short of the Science Center, Tyler is captured. Dragged. Beaten. Thrown onto the football field, now converted into a gladiator pit. Prodigium films everything.

Tyler is forced to fight. He survives by inches—using the handgun he never stopped carrying.

Then— Gunfire from the stands. Lena. She wasn’t going to let him do this alone.

They escape together. Toward the Science Center. Toward hell.

ACT V — THE TRUTH IN THE LAB

Inside the lab, the truth is worse than Tyler imagined. Barton isn’t modifying the Gill-Man to breathe air. He’s cloning him.

Rows of embryonic creatures float in tanks—half-formed, twitching. An army.

Worse— Barton has been using Marcia’s DNA to engineer Gill-Women, capable of birthing natural Gill-Creatures on land. Reproduction without extinction. Evolution hijacked.

Marcia is gagged. Broken. Alive. Tyler attacks. The fight is savage.

Tyler slashes Barton’s face repeatedly, carving away the man who thought he was God. Lena hacks the data. She sees the timeline.

The Gill-Women’s DNA will stabilize. But not yet. There is another possibility.

ACT VI — CHOICE, NOT CAPTIVITY

Lena realizes the truth: Marcia’s DNA doesn’t have to be weaponized. It could be used to give the Gill-Man a mate. Not an army. A future.

Barton is dead. The cult cell collapses. The campus is reclaimed.

Before leaving, Tyler writes a message for the university’s scientists:

“He’s not a weapon. He’s not a god. He’s a species. Let him live.”

They free the Gill-Man.

ACT VII — THE PROMISE OF RETURN

At the beach, under moonlight, the Gill-Man enters the ocean. He pauses. Looks back. Not gratitude. Recognition. A promise.

He returns to the Black Lagoon, carrying the future of his kind with him. The Gill-Woman will come, when the time is right.

EPILOGUE — NO ONE IS SAFE ANYMORE

Marcia is free. Healing. Looking for a life that doesn’t belong to a monster—or a man who pretended to be one.

Tyler knows the truth: Prodigium is everywhere. His friends are fighting on the other side of the country. This isn’t over.

He takes his old yacht—the one from the original expedition—and turns west, navigating rivers toward California. Lena comes with him.

The war has gone global.

POST-CREDITS SCENE — THE CALL

A video message arrives. Abraham Van Helsing. His voice is grim.

“San Francisco. Now. This is bigger than anything we’ve faced before.”

The Brotherhood must reunite.





Based on: The Creature Walks Among Us by Arthur A. Ross
The Gill-Man design is not mine, it is Lordwormm's.
The jacket Tyler is wearing belongs to LieutenantAleka.