A Lost Memory: Alitheia

Episode 19: Black Shuck and the Faerie dog

"Who are you?!" Fitz screamed at a heaving man with a hammer in hand and blood stains on his bare chest.

"Eliza, wake up!" Colchester cried out to her while she lay unconscious over the staircase in her Bakunawa form, the red hue of blood a stark contrast to her blue shaded head.

Earlier that day

"Can't we just up and leave?" Fitz questions, while sitting in a circle in Eliza's room with the rest of the residents after their breakfast.

"I've thought of that too honestly," Kacey informs and takes a sip of lemonade, "I wish I had a cup of AstroBucks right now," she groans and takes another sip.

"There's no transportation to get back," she adds.

"We have Mandisa's car," Jiro yells.

"I'm out of petrol," she tells him.

"Petrol?" Kacey asks and Mandisa rewords her sentence with the word 'gas'.

"Can't we just wait for your real dad?" Akira refers his question to Fitz and she answers that she's not even sure if he was there to begin with and not the Kapnos demon.

"Can't we call someone to pick us up?" Fitz asks and Colchester informs her they have no signal.

"What about the town's people, maybe they can help?" Eliza asks and the residents fell silent unsure of what to say and Gherro appeared leaning against the door with arms folded.

"That's a no go too, the thing you called a Kapnos demon put everyone under a sleeping spell for God knows how long," he informs them.

"So we stuck here," Eliza finalizes.

The rest of the day was spent tidying up their respective rooms, in the shadows a figure of a man lurks downstairs biding his time to make his presence known. After Kacey was done, she lay on her bed and took out the journal. She aimlessly turned the pages though a drawing of a dog caught her attention. I've seen this before, she thought to herself. The drawing depicted a large wolf- like dog with pearly white canines, glowing red shaded eyes and black shaggy fur, named Black Shuck. The Tus Dev Scucca is said to be an omen of death as it accompanies you to the afterlife, she reads out loud. It is said that this dog was once a drunkard man who was cursed by God to forever shift into a dog at nighttime.

A crashing sound echoes from downstairs, Kacey rushes to her door leaving the journal to page through to a drawing of a white wolf named the Faerie dog or Tus Dev Pur, a guardian wolf said to accompany souls to the afterlife and have healing abilities.

In Colchester's room he laid on his bed tossing and turning in his sleep, the white moon outside peered at him in an almost beckoning way. The crashing sound woke him up and he too rushed to the door. In the corridors, Eliza in her Bakunawa form fought a black wolf- like dog.

"What's going on here?" Colchester demands and Mandisa explains that this dog came from downstairs and attacked Eliza in her room. This obviously made her immensely angry and she turned into the Moon Eater.

"Why are you doing this?" Kacey yells at it while simultaneously trying to hold back Eliza.

"Why are you talking to it like it understands?" Akira asks her also trying to hold back Eliza and Kacey explains that it used to be human it just shape shifts into a Tus dev demon at night.

"A what?!" he yells back in confusion and she shrugs him off.

"Nevermind that, right now we gotta calm down both of them," Kacey tells him and they both start pulling at Eliza's tail though she soon swats them away and charges forward to the Tus Dev demon.