Prologue
All was quiet. A huge, tall, lonely skyscraper stood out against the night sky. The stars glowed dimly, fearing the tall building and shying away from it. Beneath the building was a courtyard. The place laid hushed, surrounded by round glass walls blocking out all of the sounds from the outside. The walls casted long, eerie shadows, which strengthened the dreadful silence.
But the silence did not last long. Small sounds of shuffling could be heard amongst the shadows. Then, a tiny figure stepped out of the darkness. This figure was too small to be a human. No, it's ears were round and large disks, and it had a jagged but puffy tail. It was covered with fur, and the extra skin dangling from its forelegs fluttered behind it like a cape. Electric sparks zapped out of its yellow cheek pouches every now and then.
The creature stepped forward, towards the center of the courtyard cautiously. It stopped right in front of the triangular gaping hole in the middle of the courtyard. It looked down, searching for something. It didn't know what it was supposed to find, yet it knew it had to find it, whatever it was. Instinct had drawn it to the ominous vicinity, despite its will to stay away from the city and live within the bounds of nature.
But despite its efforts to look into the hole deeper, all it saw were flames and snowflakes dancing slowly within the bottomless pit.
Maybe I should just jump into it, the creature thought. However, it quickly brushed aside that idea. It could probably survive falling, since it was a flying squirrel after all, and it could always fly out if things didn't go so well. But it knew the fire within would be too dangerous. Those flames were not electric flames, the only type of flames that it could go through unscathed.
The squirrel decided to try out a different idea. It straightened its ears and slightly bent them towards the hole.
That was when it heard it, what it was searching for all along without knowing. The slow, flowing trickle of blood. The faded, but strong heartbeats of something larger than the squirrel itself. The quiet groans of a soul desperate to break free.
A sign of something alive.
Yay, so, I finally got the prologue of my first fanfic ever posted. I'm sorry if it sucks so far, but again, this is my first fanfic ever. There will be more chapters coming along soon, I promise. And if I ever have to stop writing this story when I'm close to the end, then I will apologize now ahead of time. Anyways, while you wait for the next chapter, I would appreciate it very much if you review this prologue and try to guess who this creature is.
?: You made it pretty obvious.
Shut up.