I recently logged into my old fanfiction email account and saw a massive outpouring of requests for the story to continue. I wrote the first story in 2006 at the age of 16, the second I started to write at the age of 21 in 2011. I finished neither.

I'd like to say my passion for writing has not diminished, but that would be a lie. I hope I'll be able to write this to some extent of completion - but due to real world responsibilities I might be unable to update often or at all.

I make no promises.

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Lauren surveyed her surroundings as she exited the hospital shuttle - there had been a huge influx of people attacked, or killed by, what was described as a large black hairless dog-like creature with a long tail. She didn't quite believe the fanciful tales, but she did believe in what she saw in the hospital.

Most of the patients and victims had either been slashed, bitten, partially or entirely dissolved by whatever attacked them. The bits of residue found in some of the autopsies revealed a sort of radioactive corrosive acid that even the military and CDC were unfamiliar with. Biological warfare seemed an option to her as it was impossible for any sort of naturally occuring animal to suddenly develop a highly corrosive acid capable of melting bone and use it as a weapon without any previously documented occurrences.

Yet only a small amount of the deceased victims had this acid on them.

"Perhaps a defensive mechanism of the creature." She mused as she unlocked her apartment door.

If it was defensive the creature would've been harmed and according to reports it did seem that when the creature fled the scene it let some of the acid drop and it burned holes into any surface it touch.

She sighed a sigh of relief as she entered her kitchen, putting on the kettle. She had worked for more than 48 hours straight to help with the influx of patients and process all the reports regarding them. To be home was a blessing and a curse in the sense that she felt there was a lot more she could do.

"No, you need to sleep." She said to herself, but how important was sleep really in the face of something so spectacularly unique that all governing bodies, to her knowledge, had absolutely no idea about it?

She pondered on that as she finished making her tea before making way to her room. How absurd was the idea of a biologically engineered creature? Maybe it was just a biological attack that caused hallucinogenic effects. Large black hairless dog could easily be a human in a black hazmat suit deploying the chemicals.

"Wouldn't explain the mauling though." She mused aloud.

She entered her room and placed the tea down onto her bedside table before turning to use the bathroom.

Lauren froze instantly as she faced the supposed empty doorway only to find a very large black skinned creature standing there, dripping green-yellow liquid from a wound onto her carpet. She looked at the creatures 'blood' and saw it was burning holes into her carpet with every drop.

'Is that my fate?' She questioned herself, had whomever engineered these things sent it after her as she was the leading nurse on the case? No...impossible, a nurse was worth nothing compared to the scientists researching everything. She merely had access to the notes and a very inquisitive mind.

Whatever this thing was it was not a dog or a man in a suit, it was alien. It bared its teeth at her and she noted it had no eyes. She immediately slowed her breathing and stood rigid as to not alert the creature further of her position, unsure of whether it would even help as it had sensed her in the exact spot she was before.

Creatures lacking one common sense often excelled in others and she was pretty sure this thing could smell and hearlher.

She made a move for her cup to toss to the side as a distraction when she heard glass shattering. She and the creature both whipped their heads towards the noise and what she saw knocked the breath from her. She let her hands fall to her side in awe.

She had no idea what it was, but it was even more alien that the creature in the same room as them even if it bore a humanoid shape. She could hear its coarse breathing and took note of the armor and weapons it wielded and she knew immediately this thing was after the creature yet she did not feel safe at all. He did not look like he was here to protect anyone but himself and she would end up as a number on his kill sheet for he was a killer - she could see that from the skulls hanging from his belt, some human and most not.

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This concludes the first chapter. I'll have the next one up by the end of the week hopefully.