Cheese I kinda feel like you tries to overdo it. Also the wording was kind of awkward. "It looked like an octopus, only the octopus was inside a glass." You are just off your game today cheese.
I need to warm up writing. His skin started to burst, followed by an intense pain. He didn't dare hold it in, or be destroyed himself. His body disappeared, in it's place a mighty shadow cast by the hideous beast from which it came. The citizens cowered in fear. A little girl looked up. And screamed.