Small towns hold the most secrets, some more dangerous than others. What happens when people start to be murdered or others begin to go missing? The police don't know who or what is killing these people. Amy is just a 16 year old girl who even in he...
When I got home Samatha was still there in my bedroom. She froze when I caught her snooping under my bed. She slid out from under the bed frame and looked around awkwardly, "Oh... Hi Samantha." I slung my back down onto the floor; it landed with thud. Samantha gritted her teeth and narrowed her eyes. "So what were you doing under my bed, trying to be the Boogie Man?" I said sarcastically. Samantha's lips turned into a scowl. I turned away from her and just walked out of the room. If she was here I didn't want to be in the room with her snooping through my stuff.
Exiting the house I started to go to the forest where Gertrude first told me the story of the Red and Blue man. As I walked closer to my destination the wind began to pick up and I began to feel a cold twinge hum in my head before disappearing. I stopped walking for a second.
What was that...
There was no answer from my Demon, I scowled and just continued walking. The town edges became more overgrown with weeds and vegetation. Walking deeper into the forest I let the sound of the forest surround me.
I shifted and started to run through the underbrush. Brambles tugged at my fur and some caught on but I ignored them. The sweet scent of the wild flowers released into the air as I rushed by. Some ditzy bees flew in tumbling circles around and buzzed loudly when I annoyed them.
I continued to run and roll around in the grass letting any anger and tension seep out. Suddenly the temperature dropped. It wasn't enough to be freezing but it was noticeable enough that it made me stop rolling around perked my ears up.
A breeze blew by me and I noticed that the birds in the area had stopped chirping. The bumblebees stopped their dopey flying and had vanished back to their hive.
In my wanderings I had gone deeper into the forest and here the vegetation was wilder and much more untamed. The brambles curled thickly around the clearing, some were bearing berries but you wouldn't be able to get any without being ensnared in thorny branches. Dark green ivy wrapped around the trees like snakes and their leaves were broad and heart shaped. The flowers' petals around here were all dark and mysterious colors that seemed to glow in the patches of sunlight.
In the shadows of the trees were mushrooms, brown and flat, or firey red with round top. I didn't even want to try what they tasted like.
My observations were cut short by a rustling in some thick, tall grass. The sound happened fast and almost as soon as it happened the rustling stopped, the only evidence it had even occured was the slight swaying of the pine green grass, as if it was only a gentle breeze that had disturbed the patch of greenery in the first place.
But the sense-like the one back at the speech when I could sense all the generators- in the back of my mind told me that there was something in that grass, something that had a brain, something that had a pulse, something larger than a squirrel or a mouse, something big.
I crouched down and shifted my weight into my back legs; preparing to leap. In my mind the sense formed the unsteady outline of a body with fuzzy lines branching outwards from the near the center. The lines kept disappearing and reappearing in a disorganized pattern.
From the image that was formed I waited until the body was faced away from me before pouncing.
I landed on its back and dug my claws past the matted dirty fur and into skin. The animal-thing shrieked and ear piercing sound that made my ears lay down flat against my head and tried bucking me off first but that just made me claw in deeper out of fear of falling off and being crushed. I was starting to think this wasn't an animal but another Demon and thing that really sealed it was when they unfurled a pair of dark grey bat-like wings from its sides and started to beat the air with them causing dirt, dust and small rocks to whip up in a mini dust storm.
Wind and small pebbles lashed across my skin as I closed my eyes to try and prevent any dirt from stinging them.
But I could feel it building up, the electricity under my skin and this far out I didn't think I could cause a blackout, so I let it out freely, felt the blinding electricity surge through my limbs and out of me-into the Demon below be. The air lit up with blue and purple energy.
I opened my eyes to see the dust storm had settled down and the Demon I had sunk my jumped onto and sunk my claws into was tipsily rocking back and forth in a daze. The white fur all long their body was standing on end as they gave a groan before with a thud to the ground, unconscious.
I unhooked my claws and a feeling of guilt sunk its claws into me, it was kinda my fault in the first place whoever this was, was even unconscious. And the more I thought about it the more I felt guilty. So I decided I would tell Kate and maybe carry this person closer to home so Kate can help, I mean they certainly look like they need food and a bath or something.
I touched the burning mindlink in my head and told Kate
"I shocked someone in the forest I'm gonna bring them near home, because I can't bring them in due to Samantha, see you in a bit!"
Kate replied almost instantly, "I hope you mean with you raptor wit and shocking smile and not what I think you mean and you better not bring a Demon within SIGHT of a police human!"
"Pht, I'm at the edge of the town, where it meets the forest, it's the direction of Red Man and Blue Man, Gertrude knows ask her."
After getting over being mentally burned I shifted, heaved up the stranger, and started walking back to the edge of forest, where the town met wild overgrowth, where construction suddenly stopped.
I reached the edge of the forest before Kate which I didn't find as a surprise. When I got there I waited and saw a similar white bird dive bombing closer. She stopped just before hitting the ground and shifted, first to yell at me then she froze in shock at what I struggled awkwardly to carry through the forest.
After a moment of silence in which I just kicked a rock back and forth Kate spoke in a serious voice, her crimson eyes were hard yet sad. "Amy, do you know who that is?"
