Welcome to Shadow Falls: Chapter 1
Arriving at Shadow Falls was frightening. I've known that the supernatural world existed since I was little but being around so many people was starting to get to me. The one downer to being a shapeshifter was that people could always tell your emotions by the color of your eyes. I knew that anyone looking at me could see the fear in my grey eyes. Half way to my cabin I feel a rush of wind blow past me. After I move the hair out of my face I see Anthoney standing in front of me.
"Hey Madi have you seen Lacey around?" he asks looking around like she's going to magically appear.
"Nope, haven't seen anyone yet. If you find her tell her to find me." I say to a spaced out vampire.
"Sure sure." And with that he raced off again in search of his girlfriend.
Finally making it to the cabin I was going to share with two other people I throw my bag on the porch to open the door. Just before I touch the handle the door swings open. Anna is standing in the doorway grinning from ear to ear.
"I thought I smelled you out here." The werewolf says, running a hand through her short curly hair.
"Madi!" I hear someone squeal from inside the kitchen.
Lacey comes barreling from the cabin almost knocking Anna over trying to grab me. After the longest hug of my life she eventually lets me go and grabs one of my bags off the porch. I know my eyes must be a bright yellow, as well they should be I was going to be living in a cabin with my three friends. I giggle as Lacey struts back into the cabin her blonde hair bouncing as she goes. Anna grabs my other bag with an eye roll and follows after her.
"I'm so glad I'm not going to be rooming with total strangers." Anna told me with relief obvious in her voice.
"I know but I mean it makes sense we are all different species." I told her throwing my bag onto my twin sized bed. "Oh Lacey, forgot to tell you Anthoney is looking for you."
The witch grins and is about ready to bolt for the door. "Well, now that you're here I think I'm going to go find him." With that she's out the door.
I look over at Anna my eyebrow raised. She just shrugged in reply and headed toward the kitchen, I followed. My stomach rumbled and I went to the fridge to make a sandwich to hold me over for dinner. There was a knock at the door, hard and fast. Anna sniffed the air and was at the door in a second. Norman stood on the front porch rubbing his neck, brown eyes looking down.
"Yes?" Anna asked grinning. Oh she's so in love with Norman, being in the same pack they spent a good bit of time together over the past year and a half.
"I was uh wondering if you wanted to run together during the next full moon. It's in a couple of days and you know thought you'd want to spend some time together." The were said still rubbing his neck and looking down.
"Just be responsible, you know how you werewolves can be those nights." I throw over my shoulder not looking up from my sandwich.
"Ugh I didn't even say yes yet. I mean I do but jeez." She was starting to get annoyed with us already; weres were so touchy like that.
"So is that a yes?" Norman asked hopefully.
"Yea fine, I'll see you then." Then she shut the door and flopped down at the table.
After dinner a few hours later Lacey, Anna, and I were sitting on the two couches. Lacey and I on one couch Anna on the other.
"So how was your date with Anthoney?" I asked.
Her face got so red I knew I was going to regret asking that. "It was fun," Was all she said.
"Like we don't want to know the details fun?" Anna inputted.
"If you want to know all the gory details then you're just nasty."
"So yes," She laughed out.
"So what if we do the deed, it's not like you two don't do it." Lacey said pointing her finger at us accusingly.
"I can't even remember the last time I did anything. How 'bout you Madi?" she grins at me.
"I don't even know what this deed is you speak of." I say superior like and with a shake of my head only to dissolve into laughter.
"Did I ever tell you guys how much I hate you." Lacey giggles.
A piercing scream sounded from outside. Anna and I were at the door before Lacey even managed to scramble off the couch. Burnett flashes by us heading down the path toward the scream. I feel my human body slip away and that of a leopard appears in its place. There are other campers making their way in the same direction curiosity burning in everyone.
By the time we make it down to the lake Anna and I have to elbow a couple vamps out of the way to see what all the commotion is about. Instantly I smell the blood first. It was covering a pale figure sprawled out on the ground. The new girl Jenny was holding the limp body on her lap the blood seeping into her jeans and T-shirt.
"What happened?" Burnett asked, trying to keep his temper under control.
"I don't know," the girl sobbed, "I was already down here when I heard the scream. I ran over and she like this." Jenny started to sob uncontrollably, not that I could blame her.
Burnett pulled the body out of the small girls' arms. A gasped escaped my mouth, the girls throat had been ripped open, blood still dripping down what was left of her neck. Her head rolled to the side and I met her glassy unstaring gaze.
"You will all stay in your cabins tonight, stay in a group of two or larger." Burnett barked at us.
"What about classes tomorrow?" I heard someone ask.
"Class will be delayed until further notice. Now go back to your cabins there might be a killer at Shadow Falls."