The Watcher's Tales - Destiny's End

The Kobalos

I am Andri and this is my story. I live in a small town surrounded by miles of trees and forests. The town I live in is so small that every family knows each other. Normally Christmas is a wonderful holiday for our small town, you'd see neighbors exchanging presents and helping set up the Christmas tree in the middle of town. This Christmas would be different, in the days leading up to Christmas there have been disappearances. For the past few days every day a new family would go missing, the first disappearance we thought that maybe the family decided to leave for vacation.
     We thought that given the fact that the authorities informed everyone that the house was picked clean and the neighbors vanished not to mention there was no signs of a break in. The next disappearances were even weirder with the entire family being gone with the exception of their family pet and instead of all their belongings being gone only more valuable possessions were taken like watches or necklaces. That was the latest incident which caused concern among the majority of the remaining families and pushed for local authorities to contact local Golden Enclave Forces to check it out.
     Due to this happening yesterday with it now being on the eve of Christmas instead of the usual holidays with the air being filled with the smell of freshly baked goods and the sounds of our neighbors kids playing in the snow but now there isn't a singular person outside and all you can hear outside is the sound of the snowstorm raging on outside. I'm finally settling down for bed but even as I am getting ready to sleep for the night every sound sets off my senses, the sound of the wind howling, the sound of a tree branch brushing up against my window even the slight pounding coming from my ceiling.
     Eventually my eyes would grow heavy and I'd be able to slip into my sleep despite the constant noises feeding into my growing paranoia. I would be woken up suddenly by the sound of something crashing down against the floor in the distance and shattering. Hesitantly I would peel off the warm blankets off of my body as I got up and creeped towards the door of my bedroom, right as I went to touch the doorknob being abruptly interrupted by the sound of a loud bang against my door before I recoiled in shock as I fell backwards barely catching myself in time.
     I would get back to my feet as I collected my bearings before approaching my door fearing what could be outside my door as I gently gripped the doorknob and opened it, as I did so it would loudly creak. That's when it happened, as soon as my door creaked I noticed there was a figure in front of me at the end of the hallway. The figure was dragging a dark sack behind it before it slowly turned around leaving the dark sack at it's side, as soon as the being let go of the sack it hunched and I could make out a head poking out of the sack, it was my mom.
     My mom tried to worm their way out of the sack as I was frozen in fear watching as the being punched the sack hard in the side causing my mom to whimper while hearing a sickening crunch before the sack and my mom went limp. I would look at what had did this to my mom and as soon as I did I regretted it. The creature was tall with broad and wide shoulders being covered in head to toe in red fur sharing the same hue as blood and that's when I noticed it's face, it's face had yellow eyes they were unblinking and staring into my own eyes, I felt trapped by it's gaze I wanted to scream or do anything but I couldn't even lift a finger all I could do was stare back into it's eyes as I lowered my gaze to his teeth.
     Its teeth were sharp and stained with some red substance with bits and pieces of flesh stuck in its teeth. I felt like I was going to retch at the sight of this monstrosity then it began to push it's index finger up against it's mouth before it started to shush me as it would use a previously hidden tail of it's to grab the sack as it would carry it behind him and leaving through the front door. Once it had left the house I could feel my control return to me as I had rushed to the front door I was blasted by the frigid cold weather as I looked off into the night looking for any signs of where that monster went with my mom but instead I would be met by the blinding blizzard outside.
     Defeated I closed the door and went to my dad's bedroom hoping that maybe he was asleep or safe but as soon as I opened the door to my dads bedroom my nostrils would be violated by the metallic smell of blood. I flicked on the lights to my parents bedroom and I would notice their was blood smeared on the wall which read "Merry Christmas Andri" and below the writing was the lifeless body of my dad.