[ EU ] In Pokemon Zubats are annoying but laughably weak . Write a story that makes them absolutely terrifying .

The boy ran blindly through the dark tunnels. His breath heaved in his chest. Shadows loomed over him as he panicked and hoped desperately for escape. The running boy suddenly tripped over a small rock. 
 
 `` Ufff,'' he grunted as he slammed into the cold, wet floor of Cerulean Cave. 
 
 The boy slowly picked himself up. `` I need to get out of here!'' he cried aloud. 
 
 But only if he could find an exit. And he had no pokemon to help him. 
 
 When he entered the cave, his backpack had been swiped by a small creature, presumably a wild pokemon. In the backpack were his pokeballs, and so he was forced to explore the cave to find and retrieve them. 
 
 Soon, the boy was hopelessly lost. Each tunnel he tried led him in circles. 
 
 Not long after he became lost, a small chattering noise could be heard emitting from one of the tunnels. The boy tried to see through the veil of black. 
 
 Maybe that's an exit. I could go to Cerulean City and find an Officer Jenny to help find my backpack and my pokemon. 
 
 Cautiously, the boy crept into the tunnel, not knowing the terrors that awaited him. 
 
 The tunnel led to a small cave which had three more tunnrl entrances. Which one? Thought the boy. 
 
 Suddenly, he could see in the corner his backpack! The boy let out a cry of joy. 
 
 Quickly, he rummaged through his backpack. 
 
 `` Go! Charmeleon!'' the boy yelled as he threw the pokeball. 
 
 `` Char!'' exclaimed the red pokemon. Charmeleon's tail lit up the cave. 
 
 The boy looked up. And saw zubats. Dozens of them perched upside down with their wings wrapped around their bodies. Now as the flame warmed them they all slowly unfurled their wings, making the cave ceiling look a waving flag. A flag of death. 
 
 The zubats opened their mouths and screeched, making the boy's and his pokemon's ears bleed. 
 
 Panicking, the boy yelled to his Charmeleon to run. But the zubats circled around the poor pokemon like a tornado. Faster and faster they twisted around Charmeleon. 
 
 Suddenly, a guttural scream could be heard emitting from the vortex and flesh and fur. And just as suddenly, it was cut off. The zubats broke apart as they revealed the half-visible skeleton of the dead Charmeleon. Its remaining eye stared at the boy's face. 
 
 The boy vomitted at the sight of his dear friend, and then turned and ran. 
 
 
 
 
 The shrieking grew louder as the boy tripped on the rock. He picked himself up on ran. The tunnel he was in began to slant upwards and he could see grey light at the edge. The boy ran faster. 
 
 Suddenly white light engulfed him as the tunnel turned sharply to the left. An exit! The boy was saved! He ran full sprint, desperately trying to escape the chittering zubats. 
 
 The boy was feet away from the exit and freedom from this terrible nightmare until suddenly a small dark shape in the center of the exit slammed into his face, knocking him out cold. 
 
 The boy did not feel his body being dragged back into Cerulean Cave. But he did wake up upside down, held up by countless hungry zubat. Some were below feasting on a small red corpse. But the rest were chittering in the boy's ear, getting ready for today's dinner.
