The Night Crawlers

Chapter 1:The First Survivors

The full moon it's a dangerous thing. People have told story's of the beast's that hunt on these dreadful night's, but the most dangerous ones are the NIGHT CRAWLERS, or at least that is what I've heard. People say if you ever see one your doomed, they say that no person has seen one and lived to tell the tale, but I did.

It was a full moon, and tonight the town was preparing for the worst. People put barb wire out the front of their houses, and barricaded their door's, nothing was getting through them, at least that is what they thought. As the full moon catapulted upwards anyone and everyone got into their homes, making the last preparations to survive the night. After an hour our two of sleep I start to hear a large thump outside, something was out there, and that something was big. Two more minutes go by and then the thumping stops... It felt like years before I heard the next sound, and it wasn't pleasant, I hear a dreadful scream from my neighbor's house, across the road, the night crawlers have awoken, all hell will break loose until the morning sun seals it back up.

After a few more hours had past there had been about eight more people scream, eight other people that died. But something dreadful was about to play out...

 I hear a scream from my next door neighbor's, it was Theo... I go steaming down the stairs and start taring and ripping at the barracked on the front door and a few tugs and pulls later and I'm out of the house but what I see makes me think again about my decision. I'm faced with an utterly monstrous being that no man or women should ever see and live. It was a huge beast with four legs each one the length of a bus, it also had a shadow like face incased with a bone skull in the shape of a reaper, it's claws jagged and mouth full to the brim with sharp deadly teeth, but the thing that scared me the most about it, was what was tucked under it's front paw...

"Theo!!" I scream over to him, he yells back, "what are you doing here run it's not safe out here!!" "no I will not leave, the only option you have in this situation is that we both die or we both live" I say back, then he says "your so stubborn" and as soon as he says that he pulls something out of his pocket, it was a knife. He put's the knife on a slight angle and this black liquid pours out, it it looked like oil, after a moments time the knife set alight and Theo dug it into the beasts chest. The monster cried out in agony and scurried away into the dark and gloomy forest. Me and Theo just looked at each other and he said, "meet me at my house tomorrow" and without another word he left to go back inside. 

The next day I go straight to Theo's house steam up the stairs and to my not so very surprise, he is still asleep. I wake him up and am greeted with a, "you do know a man needs his beauty sleep" I answer with "yes but I kinda want to know what you were doing out there so late, it didn't even break through your roof" "here" he says whilst throwing a book at me the book cover said Beast Diary, I flip it open to a page that says

Night Crawlers

Description: These monsters have an endless thirst for blood and it is said that whoever crosses path with one will meet a painful and ugly death

Desire: ???

Traits: Big, Fast, Scary, Dangerous

DNA Sample: Not yet acquired

"ahhh,  so it's a Beastiary" I say "no" he says back sharply "it's a Beast Diary" "sure sure" I say back in a sarcastic tone. "So what do we do now" I ask "we have to leave Seth" he says back seriously "no-one can know we were, the first survivors"