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Chapter One

I walked along the gravel pathway which jutted through the alley. It lead to my house which was about one mile away by now. As I walked, I kicked some pebbles at the alley walls. They deflected and hit the nearest trash can.

A homeless man named Jerry was in the trash can nearest to me. Him and I knew each other as I saw Jerry every time I took this path.

"Felix! How are you today? Coming from school I see?" Jerry asked as he climbed out of his trash can to greet me.

"Oh yeah. I had loads of tests today. I have some spare food from lunch," I pulled out the sandwich bag that contained a bag of chips and full water bottle,"You can have them."

Jerry smiled at me and took the offering within seconds. "I got a new pet today!" His voice was as gravelly as the rocks we both stood on.

Jerry winked at me and spun around. He slammed his hand into the center of the can and seemed to be reaching around. When he finally got something, he slowly lifted it out of the garbage.

A rat.

"That's...that's nice, Jerry." I said to him. The rat stood on his palm and appeared to be shaking. It kept looking at me then back to Jerry, then to Jerry's wrist.

"Isn't she beauti-" Jerry was cut off as he screamed loudly. The rat bit into his skin drawing blood, but the strange thing is, the rat slowly crawled into the new cut it made.

Instantly, Jerry's face elongated and his teeth grew larger. Whiskers popped out from his cheeks and his beard that surrounded his pale skin started to turn a color of puke.

I retreated a couple of steps. Jerry flailed his arms in the air crazily and suddenly charged at me. He was quite fast, but I jumped to the side just in time.

The rat-man quickly recovered from its fault and it turned its head to me and spoke two words,"Run Felix."

And I did. Jerry must have been somehow controlled in a way. He must have fought off the last of the rat getting to him to save me.

This got worse as screams shot up and down the street like bullets. People ran out of their homes with limbs in their mouths. An old lady looked like a giant cat as tried to grab a little girl nearby. I picked up a large rock and threw it into the air straight at the old woman cat thing. The little girl had enough time to run from the cat lady to a woman who must have been her mom.

The cat lady looked at me and sprinted full speed at fragile me.

"Uh oh." I said.

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