Hey guys, here I am again embarking on a new HoA-based fanfic, entitled "Inside the Mind of the Dark", which does not take place in Anubis House or Amun Boarding School or all that. It has nothing to do with HoA, except the characters, which I will use to make my own story with my own premise. That being said, I still own nothing at all, and it's really sad. Read on and please review if you want me to continue the story, otherwise I may not continue it. But enough with this, and on with the story.

PROLOGUE

(Insignificant character's POV)

It was night, and the weather was real cold today. I only brought my least warm jacket, and now I'm paying a price for that decision I made a while ago. What can I do? I did not expect it to be this cold.

I walk my usual route home, walking the dark alleyways where I can see the life of those who are worse off than me. Sometimes there are beggars who are sleeping near the trash bin in the corner, drunk people staggering around with their bottles of alcohol, and I even saw infighting among some gangs at one time. Well, today was real cold, and so it was quiet. The alley was empty, except for the usual trash lying around. Then I hear some footsteps behind me. I look around, and I saw nobody. Wow, I was getting a little freaked out, but it must have been my imagination. I walk again, this time a little faster, while looking behind me at one point or another, but still, there was nobody at all. Now I was sure that it was my imagination, but I was still a little scared. What if it was a serial killer? What could I do? No, of course not, I tell myself. I'm getting paranoid now… I shake it off and walk slowly, still on the alleyways, then I hear the footsteps again. I look back, trying to look for the source of the footsteps, but of course, there was no one there. Then I look in front of me and there was someone in a hood. His face was dark, except for his eyes that gleamed in the moonlight. He narrowed his eyes at me, and then he jumped at me, immediately covering my mouth. I tried to scream, but it was muffled by his hands.

"Don't worry, miss… It will be over in a moment." Then I realized, the person was not a man at all. The voice, it was a female voice. I tried to thrash away from her, but she was strong. She maintained her grip on my mouth with one hand and then she brought out a knife at the other hand. Then she slit my throat, then let go of my mouth. I tried to breathe, but there was too much blood on my mouth and neck. I was rapidly losing consciousness. Before I blacked out, the last thing I saw was the girl bringing out a large container from her backpack, and then putting my mouth and neck directly above the container. That way, my blood was setting down on the container. I could not move at all now, as I was getting weaker and weaker by the second. Then finally, I let go…

[A few hours later]

(Nobody's POV)

Just before dawn, there was an environmental activist wandering an area along the alleyways, when he spots something interesting. There was an object in the middle of the walkway. Thinking that it may be discarded trash, he shook his head and walked towards the object. The closer he got, the more it looked to him that it was a sleeping person instead of trash. He shakes his head again, saying to himself, "I can't believe that people still sleep on the middle of the walkway, with no respect whatsoever to other people." He walks around the person whom he thought was sleeping, but he felt this need to look back to the person. He points his mobile phone light towards the sleeping person, then his heart sank. The first thing he saw was her pale, lifeless skin, and then he saw her neck. It was slit open, with an incision inches long. He panicked when he saw that it was indeed a dead person, so he ran away from the body. When he got to the main road's sidewalk, that was when he remembered to dial the emergency number.

"Hello? What's your emergency?", the dispatcher asks from the line. She hears a man answer from the other side of the line, "I-I saw… It was a girl… She was lying down… I think she's dead…" "Okay, what's your location?"

The man looks around him, his mind racing with a lot of thoughts. He sees the street sign. '24th Avenue' "Uh… I'm just out of the alley, at the 24th, I think." "Any landmarks would be helpful, sir" He looks around some more, then he realizes he was facing a theater. "Uh, it's just facing the… the Gilman Jr. Movie theater…" "Thank you sir, please wait for the authorities to arrive at the scene." The dispatcher ends the call and the man sat down and waited for the cops to arrive…

A short time later, the cops arrive at the scene, with the help of the man who saw the body. When investigators scour the area, they find a poorly-scribbled note near the body. The message was, "I see you have found my note. Consider this girl a present from me to you. I left the body for you to find, and it seems that you have found it. Kisses to all of you... P.S. Watch out for more presents. P.P.S. I hope we see each other very soon." There was a smiley face at the end of the note, and a heart symbol.

Well, that was the first chapter. You like it, or not? Please review.