Creatures of the Night

Unus

Creatures...Mysterious entities...things the human race has no idea that really exist. Ancient beings that are almost biblical sought to destroy what humanity is left in this world. It's my job to keep the human race safe all while hiding in secret. Of course a long time ago I never thought that such creatures existed until I turned 13 years old.

I had just celebrated my 13th birthday with my parents when something strange happened to me. My body changed. It was the worst pain I had ever felt in my life. I can still remember that day. It haunts me when I sleep at night...

**Flashback**

Today was the greatest day I've had over the last few days. A few days before my birthday, I felt strange and I had the weirdest aches all over my body. I thought I was coming down with a cold or maybe caught the flu from someone at school but when I woke up this morning the aches and pains were completely gone.

I don't know what was happening to me but I was glad it didn't affect my day. I've had fun with my parents. They gave me the choice of where to go and what to do. I decided to do something simple so we had a cookout at a local park. A few of my friends in school were there and while the food was being grilled, we went into the woods and explored some of the trails.

Now we're back at the house and watching a movie I had gotten as a gift. It's been pretty good so far but I needed to get up.

"Dad can you pause the movie? I need to get another drink." I asked after finishing my can of soda.

"Of course sweetheart." As I got up from the couch, dad paused the movie. I walked into the kitchen and opened up the fridge grabbing a cold Dr. Pepper from the shelf.

I shut the fridge door and started back to the living room when the pains came back but this time they were more intense. They're bad enough that I have to close my eye. I groaned as I doubled over dropping my drink to the floor.

I opened my eyes the tips of my fingers had grown into long sharp claws. I breathed out heavily as I drug myself to the living room. My mom looked over at me and gasped as I went down to one knee.

"Nyx! Honey what's wrong?" Dad questioned as they came to my side.

"I...I don't know." Suddenly my skin felt on fire but as I looked down at my arms, hair sprouted making me look like some kind of animal.

"Get away from her!" Dad said as he pulled mom away in a protective manner.

While the hair sprouted on my body, my bones popped and cracked before reshaping. I tried to stop it but I couldn't. The pain made me cry out to them but my cries turned into a mournful howl. Again that made my eyes close to deal with the pain.

I opened my eyes and I was now on all fours. I had claws and my teeth were sharp as knives. I looked behind me and I had a bushy tail. My head turned and I looked into the mirror in the living room. I looked like a dog or a wolf but I wasn't normal. The fur color was different and I was huge! I looked over at my frightened parents before falling to the ground unconscious.

**End of Flashback**

When I had woken up...I had no idea where I was. I mean I knew I was in the city but I had no memory of how I got there. The last thing I had remembered was being scared of what I had become in front of my parents before passing out.

Somehow I managed to navigate my way through the city and back to my home but I wasn't met with open arms. I was met with the barrel of my father's shotgun pointed at my face. My mother was standing behind him still frightened. I looked at them both before my father yelled at me to leave. He said that I was no longer welcomed in his home and that if I came back again he would shoot me. I didn't think he was serious until he cocked back the hammer on the gun.

I ran away from my home and back to the only other place I knew. The alley where I had woken up. I sat there in the alley during the pouring rain balling my eyes out. I had no one anymore and I was beyond scared. It wasn't long into my crying fit that a man approached me. He looked to be about the same age as my father and he had 2 others with him that stayed in the shadows.

That cold rainy night was a night that I would never forget. It was the night I had met Professor Trevor Broom.

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Author's Note:

So what do you all think about this first chapter? Each chapter title will be in Latin but I'll make sure to put the numbers either in the banners or right beside the Latin title.

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