Chapter 1
You wake up to the screeching of birds outside your window. The birds seem to gravitate towards your house even though there are kilometers of beach for them to eat fish at only a little ways away. You slowly sit up and yawn. The red sun just barely peeks up over the horizon. You look to your right to look at the green clock on your nightstand. 5:59. Sighing you get out of bed and change out of your light blue pajamas. You decide to put on faded jeans and a dark brown sweater. You slowly walk down the hall to the kitchen to make yourself some toast. You put the bread in the toaster and sit on the white marble countertop to wait.
After a few minutes the toast pops up and you put it on a plate. You get the strawberry jam out of the pantry and spread it on the bread. While eating the bread you think, “another boring start to another boring day.”
You had moved away from the busy city to a tiny house in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere three years ago, nearly every day had been boring. It was a good boring though.
The city was much too stressful for you. The tiny town called Red Cliffe was much better.
Away from the loud city.
Away from the pressure of your parents.
Away from your successful family name that brought you recognition anywhere you went in the city.
Here no one knew your family name. They knew you. The stranger that had moved to the tiny town three years ago and had fit right in quite nicely. It was a nice coastal town that had once flourished. Nowadays it was just an old fishing town that hadn’t changed in the past 50 years.
You finished breakfast and put on your boring black shoes and walked the same path you had down to the beach like you had nearly everyday. The path is a wooden path that goes from your back gate down to the rocky beach. You walk across your mossy lawn to your wooden gate. The gate was attached to a tall stone fence that surrounded your old brick house. You didn’t know why. It was almost like your house was a castle and the stone was the walls protecting you. There wasn’t anyone around and you owned all the land surrounding your house. You open the faded red gate and start down the path.
The first part of the path goes through the forest that surrounds your house. The trees are tall and moss and leaves cover the path and ground. Next to the forest is a small grass field the grass is tall and brown and itchy. There never seem to be animals in the grass. Only the wind and birds above. Next is the rocky beach. Only birds go to the beach. And sometimes people. It seems very eerie when you’re out there alone. Only bird calls and the splashing waves.
Today was different though. There were no birds or bird calls. The waves splashing in the distance seemed ominous. A chill crept up your spine and you froze in place. You could finally see the shore. Red painted the rocks and swept through the water. A body was lying on the rocks. It was almost unrecognizable as a human. You tried to move back but you trippin on a rock and fell. A sharp pain went through your leg and you realized you had hurt your ankle.
You try to get up but slip on the rocks again. You see a figure to your left and you turn your torso to see it better. You can hear your breathing quicken. The dark figure walks closer. It looks too tall to be human. The creature is draped in black cloth that covers almost all of it. You can see it’s face. Its face resembles a deers, that is if deer had sharp teeth that jutted out of its mouth and antlers that curved down and then out. It’s eyes were all black and bigger than any deers eyes. They stared into your soul.
It’s arms reached out of the cloth towards you .The arms were thin and long. They were attached to long hands that reached the ground. As it got closer it reached out towards you. It’s hands grabbed you and brought you closer. They were big enough to reach around your entire torso. It’s mouth opened wide. Saliva dripped out and onto your shirt. It was warm. It’s breath smelled like rotten fish. You tried to struggle out of it’s grip but you sensed it was too late.
You prayed for a miracle as you felt it’s teeth sink into your neck. You couldn’t think anymore. It was just pain. Soon your world faded to black and the pain subsided.
You felt lighter than air. You opened your eyes and saw your body. Mangled and bloody on the beach. Half-eaten by the monster. You knew you should feel some emotion. You had just died after all. But you felt nothing.
You watched as the high tide swept in and pulled your lifeless body out to sea. You felt a pull. You rose higher and higher.
The world you had known was becoming a tiny dot as you floated. You kept floating until you were surrounded by a white fog. You stopped going up and instead were being pulled towards the fog. Soon you were the fog.
Your thoughts became more scattered
Less frequent
Until
They
Faded
Completely...
