An old, small three-bedroom wooden house on the outskirts of a big city, with only one bathroom should not have seven people living in it; seven scared people without adequate sustenance.
This is, of course, my home now.
My name is Crimson and I probably shouldn't be complaining considering all of the other, more horrifying, circumstances, but I am only 16 and I deep down suspect we are all in hell.
As for the "more horrifying circumstances", well, that's a bit of an understatement.
It has only been a few months since my family, my mom and my little sister, were torn to shreds and eaten in front of me by what I can only describe as a pack of white mutated wolves with empty inky black eyes; haunting lidless ocular pits that I see every time I close my own.
All seven of us have renamed ourselves to a color. It's just a small step to leaving behind whatever past lives we had.
I have been trying my best to forget my, "old life", as a 33 year old heavier set woman named Sienna, refers to it, but it seems like an increasingly arduous task.
Azure and Vermillion, twin twenty-one year old athletically built males who fit perfectly into the description of the Aryan race, make life a little easier with their constant attempts at humor and near endless optimism, but they all seem so naïve.
Ruby and Olive are whores who, now that I think about it, probably went from names of spices to names of colors when they started living here. They are nice women, but, to put it bluntly, kind of stupid and, well, "too" open-minded.
Blue is the youngest and by far my favorite. He is only 12, the same as my little sister was, and I feel a strong urge to take care of him because of it; to succeed where I failed my sibling.
All of us have been hiding out here from those monsters and their masters who, as far as I can tell from the few survivor stories I've heard, are far worse.
Every day seems to be getting harder. The first month though that was the craziest when I first transformed. It was the first night after the disastrous slaughter of my family, that night they found me, and the next day I was brought to the house the night the waning crescent lunar phase started. My skin felt like someone pored acid all over my body while simultaneously getting ran over by a truck, and not being able to die. I had blacked out only to wake up as one of creatures who feasted on the flesh of my family. Filled with rage ran through the streets unable to control myself as though, and the thirst, I was just so thirsty. Then I ran into vermillion, I tried to attack him but he wiped the floor with me he had better control of his form then I did, he so quickly immobilized effortlessly then. he howled and I could hear him yell in my head calling for sienna, from there they took me in. they explained to me exactly what was going on, comforted me and began to teach me.
During every night we transform, during the waning phases the darker the moon is in the sky the more negative feelings we feel, the brighter the more positive we feel. We develop powers that are stronger when in wolf form weaker in our human form, telepathy, enhanced speed,strength, smell, hearing, telekinesis, as well as abilities that we only have. Azure had earth, vermillion fire, ruby wind, olive lightning, blues was the coolest I've seen yet he could control plants, morph into animals, communicate with them too. Blue just named his ability nature. Mine was anything to do with water it was a bit startling at first I immediately could tell where any source of water was everything I touched turned into ice, I could hear and feel peoples blood moving through their veins, but I'm always thirsty the others seem to have issues based on what ever latent ability they possessed. The only one who seemed to have no issue at all was sienna, when asked what her ability was they said it was dark matter and even she doesn't understand what it does or what she could do but last time she tried it opened a dark hole that created the grand canyon, crunched the earth into forming the rockies and later brought up mt. Helena. They her girl friend died altering the memories of every human on the earth to cover it up, due the chaos and world wide panic it caused, but according to blue the animals and plants still know. She swore to never use it again. According to sienna people weren't born like this it started as a biological weapon in central India to create super soldiers for north korea who had secretly taken over without the rest of the world finding out.