~Prologue~
It was a normal week day, students were finishing their homework, some getting ready for bed, but that wasn't the case for two girls who lived on the edge of New York City in a small town named Insania.
The sky there was much darker then it should be, nobody seemed to be bothered by it or the occasional flash of red going through the dark clouds above, everyone was either inside around seven pm or like Abii Hale's parents; out shopping.
The two girls laid on the couch watching TV, one of them finishing up their homework, these two girls were Abii Hale and Allie Fox, best friends since the start of middle school.
"Hey Abii," the teen mumbled, playing a game of catch with her pencil,
"Yeah?" Abii replied looking up at the ceiling, clearly bored.
"You should help me with my homework, I just have to answer a few more questions.." she moaned on,
"Just do it yourself!" Abii said moving around on the couch till she was upside down.
"But-" Allie gets interrupted by Andy coming down with his Kindle, blaring some song he looked up on Youtube.
"Andy turn that off, it's loud and you'll get mom pissed off!"
"Mom's not here you know," Andy replied turning off the loud music.
"What?" Allie said completely taken a-back, thinking her mother was in the bedroom.
"She left to go out shopping, I think she said something about going with your parents?" Andy says, pointing at the teen lying upside down on the couch.
"Hey, you two, get off your lazy butts and come look at this.."
"What?" Abii mumbles dragging out the a's as she tumbles onto the floor, quickly getting up and going over to the window with Allie.
"Whoa, what's up with the sky?" Allie asks, causing Abii to put on one of her signature 'are-you-kidding-me?' faces.
"Maybe it's gonna storm? It's been awhile since we got any rain.. Andy mind turning on the news?" Abii asks.
The familiar sound of a news anchor fills the room, capturing both girl's attentions.
"Many people have spotted these dark clouds in areas all across the globe, some have even said they saw red lightning streaks while taking their daily walks, it's quite unusual but we're sure it's nothing serious.
But, just as a precaution all flights have been canceled in the areas where these dark clouds have been spotted, please stay tuned for more information on the matter."
A few minutes of silence pass before the sound of glass breaking errupts from outside along with crashes, one hitting the house that the three of them stand in.
"Andy, go hide in the closet!" Allie yells, "What- no! What's going on?"
"Get in the closet Andy!" Allie says guiding him over to the door and shoving him inside.
"Stay there, don't come out until I come and get you, do you understand?"
A loud crash and the sound of more glass breaking comes from the hallway that connects to the living room.
A monster, with the skin of a man and half the face of one, walks through the door that now lays a few feet away in the hallway, one blue eye sticks out amongst the limbs that are places they definetly should not be, the other side of the thing's face has a totally black eye with razor sharp teeth jutting out of its mouth.
Licking its lips with its disgustingly long tongue it looks into the living room where the two girls stand, guarding the closet door.
"Food.." the thing mumbles as it ducks into the living room, it goes for Allie, reaching out one of its arms to grab her, almost instinctively Abii darts in front of her throwing her arms up in a X form over her chest.
When Abii looks back down, she doesn't have arms, but two blades that hold the monster's hand back from grabbing Allie.
Taking one blade away, Abii shoves it into the thing's chest, it looks down at the wound as blood starts gushing out of it, removing the blade it turns back into her actual arm.
The monster slowly starts disintegrating, leaving a red soul hovering in mid-air.
"W-What was that..? Are there more?" Allie says looking out the window, shattered glass decorates the ground while homes have been torn apart, people stand outside some laughing up into the sky, others standing around blankly staring into space.
What's happening? these thoughts fill both of the girl's minds, leaving them both a little shocked.
Another sound comes from outside, it's.. a helicopter.
It lands in the middle of the street, and a man with a lab coat walks out with a woman who seems to have golden-colored hair,
"Who are they?" Abii whispers to Allie as they both look out the window.
"Do you think they're the people who sent that thing here?" Allie replies, looking at the man in the lab coat.
"I thought all flights were canceled.." Abii whispers back, "maybe they know something about that thing I.." The teen trailed off, looking down at her arm which was a blade just a few minutes ago.
The man in the lab coat starts pointing at the houses, lighting a cigarette up as he stares up at the dark clouds.
"We have to hide.." Abii whispers.
"What if they know something about that thing?"
"What? Have you gone mad?" Abii says looking at her friend with wide eyes.
"If they know something maybe we could trick them into telling us.." Allie tried to convince her friend. Abii stared back at her not eager to approach these people who could do who knows what. "Just trust me on this!" Allie shouts, bringing more attention to their house.
Abii sighs, "Fine, so how are we doing this?"
Allie smiled back at her friend now that they were on the same page, "We go out there and act like we're completely terrified and if they try to pull anything.. we bolt after getting my brother."
Abii nods, walking over to the archway with Allie, putting on the best scared little kid face they knew, then walked outside, forcing a few tears.
"Stein, over here!" The golden-haired woman yells, running over to the two teens.
"Are you alright, you must be going through so much right now.. do you know where your parents are?"
After a quick sniffle Abii timidly says, "Th-they went to the store with her mom.. neither have come back since.."
"My dad.. he said he was going somewhere, my brother's inside.. I told him to hide," Allie said forcing her voice to tremble, but didn't mention where exactly her brother was hiding.
"We'll try to find them ok? They must be worried sick!" The lady says, giving them both a good squeeze.
"And we'll go get your brother, I'm Marie and the man over there in the lab coat is Dr. Stein, we're rescuing survivors and helping the rest of the people who've been hurt." she says cheerfully with a bright smile.
"I'm Abii and this is Allie." The teen says gesturing over to the other girl who stands beside her.
"Nice to meet you, I'll be right back, you two stay here ok?" both girls nod and watch as Marie walks over to Stein and whispers something.
He nods, looking over his shoulder at the two girls who stand there still looking terrified.
Dr. Stein shouts at one of the men to go into the house with Sid to retrieve Allie's brother. Allie stiffened at this not sure if she wanted them to find her brother just in case it was dangerous.
Ten minutes pass before the men finally come out, glancing over at Allie and Abii as Sid whispers something to Stein.
"Where's my brother?" Allie says walking over to them, trailed by Abii.
"He- we couldn't find him, we checked everywhere, every closet... every room.. I'm sorry bu-" He's cut off short as the girl runs inside the house, cutting her foot on a piece of glass along the way shouting Andy's name.
"Andy!?" No reply.
She checks every room, every corner, everywhere.. but nothing.
Allie comes back out, fists clenched in pure frustration.
She told Andy to stay, did he just not listen and run off? Was he dead?
She glanced around the clearing searching for Sid, but when she found him no where she turned to Stein instead, "What the hell did you do?!" she shouted charging at him and attempting to punch him in the face, However, Stein caught her fist without effort.
" I understand how you're feeling right now, but this whole town is under quarantine for the time being."
"I don't care!" Allie snapped jumping away from the man.
Stein sighs, "As soon as the town is out of quarantine then we'll do as much as we can to help you search for him, but for right now you have to come with us." His body seemed to have a bit of a spasm and he doubled over, hands resting on his knees.
"Stein!" Marie shouted and rushed over to his side, "Are you ok? Are the madness suppressants wearing off?"
Madness suppressants? Both girls wondered.
Abii, almost appearing from thin air places a hand on Allie's shoulder, "Somethings off we should probably get out of here.. and that's the only way.." She said looking towards to helicopter. Allie grew tense when she saw where Abii was looking but said nothing.
"You two can go sit in the helicopter, Marie and I will be following you shortly, Sid here will be flying it." Stein said roughly standing up on his own, shooing away Maries help.
Both girls could sense they knew more about the situation so they made their way into the vehicle.
Abii wasn't quite sure about any of them, so she made sure she was seated by Allie away from the rest of the people , not wanting to be near them.
"Do you trust them?" Allie whispers, as they get into the helicopter.
Abii shakes her head, "There's something they aren't telling us."