A Dark Night's Story Book to Make You Jump

Black bird

In a small town called Sunnyvale, a town just as normal as any other, a town crazy was to be had. Every town or city has, had, or will have one. It is inevitable that such discrepancies will occur in the civil order that we call life. This "town crazy" however, was different. He was silent, and he walked the roads every day. He wore the garbs of that which would be comparable to a traditional plague doctor during the epidemic with the corresponding name. While no bad came from him, and no curses or town legends circulated around him, he was an oddity of the greatest curiosity. One day, a young man named Samuel grew an insatiable hunger for answers to the greatest oddity in the towns relatively normal history. The only information he could find was that the only animal that wouldn't flee from him were the black birds. They followed the man in fact, and whenever some one came close, they would crow impossibly loud, something that no animal should be able to do. Samuel took this anomaly as his lead and began to research into strange animal behavior, behavior altering diseases, and potentially altering drugs. Samuel filled every waking hour of the day with studies and research on what could cause this phenomenon. At the end of his third year, just as he was going to give up on his search for the elusive truth, he found something. A legend, identical to the one in their town, on the exact opposite side of the world. As he left his ramshackle home to reveal his discovery, he noticed all of the town had been entirely deserted. He searched every home, store, and school. No one was left. He officially declared to himself he would travel until he found functioning civilization, so that he could find someone to reveal his findings to. As he left, he saw the man one last time, the man waved, and vanished instantaneously. When he hit the next town, every one avoided him, his manic existence scared almost all animals and people away from him. His findings were defined as paranoid delusions. Now, only the blackbirds remained to keep him company. He was left, forgotten. Until one day, a young man named Samuel looked apon him, and grew gravely curious towards the man, who wore the garb, of a traditional, plague doctor.