Chupacabras can tell when there's a disturbance in the natural order of things. It's the same way that a good stockbroker can tell when Wall Street is fluctuating, or an engineer can tell when a machine isn't working right. Only it's not a product of the job; it's a product of the race.
Chupacabras aren't demons, or vampires, or monsters, or anything truly dark. We're nature spirits of the night, basically. The children Lilith had by Adam.
You know that story, don't you? I realize many of you may not.
Yahweh (the Judeo-Christian god) created Lilith before he created Adam. Lilith was the real first woman, a guardian of nature. God then created Adam to be her mate.
Lilith and Adam had many children, but they looked like Lilith, not like Adam. Lilith had pale skin, black hair that was shaggy like a wolf's, and dark eyes. She looked perfect, like a goddess of night. Adam had dark skin, pale eyes, and red hair that was wiry. He looked more like an orangutan than a spirit.
Lilith's children were all spirits that guarded nature. They were beautiful, mortal spirits that were innocent in the way that Lilith was innocent: They knew the same things that came from eating the Apple, that God made later; but they took no shame in it.
Adam, on the other hand, did take shame in it. He did not understand the ways of nature, only of humans. He demanded that Lilith be subservient to him, like he thought was right.
When Lilith refused to be his slave, Adam complained to God, saying that Lilith was not doing what she was supposed to. God sent two of his angels to Adam and Lilith to try to straighten things out. One was named Lucifer; he was a nature spirit, like Lilith. One was named Eve; she was a human like Adam, and a temptress. She had golden hair, pink skin, and pale eyes.
Eve tempted Adam into eating an apple that she claimed would give him eternal life. Instead, it made him forget Lilith, and remember only Eve. Eve claimed that this was true, because she was willing to be a slave to Adam. She drove Lilith and Lucifer out of the garden, with Adam helping her, claiming that Lucifer had put a snake in the garden that bit her and drove her mad.
Lilith and Lucifer escaped to the night, where they had children. These were the succubim, which were the guardians of the realm of the mind.
Eve had had children with Lucifer, before God had sent them to make peace with Lilith and Adam. These children were tainted, twisted versions of Lilith's children. They were vampires and demons. They were the spirits that frightened humans into doing what they believed was God's will.
This is not a story that a human made up. This is the metaphorical truth. It's the truth in the same way that the story of Za-Lavarne and Kai-Rashav is truth, in the minds of the Andalites. It means this: It didn't actually happen that way, but when people started to believe it, all the effects of it happening that way came together. It makes no difference whether anything really happened now; only the effects of it.
TASCHA
Call me Tascha. You could not pronounce my real name if you tried.
I am a chupacabra, one of the blessed spirits. I have pale skin, and long, dark red shaggy hair that feels like wolf hair. I have green eyes, dark red lips, and pointed teeth.
I have long fingernails, and pointed ears. I also have bat wings, which only some chupacabras have. I have a fairly human body, but claws for feet.
I live in the woods. There aren't many other chupacabras near where I live, so I'm on my own most of the time.
There are weirder creatures than chupacabras in the woods. There is, for example, an Andalite. And a boy that is a hawk.
The Andalite isn't too interesting. But that boy
TOBIAS
It was the middle of the night, and I couldn't sleep.
Something weird had been going on in the woods. During the day, I could have sworn that someone was watching me. And during the night, I had been hearing someone singing.
I heard a rustle in the leaves. Ax? I called softly. That you?
"No," hissed someone.
I looked behind me. Nothing there.
Something pounced on me from in front. It knocked me off of the branch I was sitting on and pinned me to the ground.
"Morph," it breathed to me.
What?
"Just morph." It leaned over me menacingly.
I morphed into my human body. As I changed, I realized what was pinning me to the ground.
It was a woman. She was completely naked, and amazingly beautiful.
Her skin shone white in the moonlight. She leered at me, panting.
"Stand up," she ordered me, getting off of me.
I stood up. "Who are you?"
"Call me Tascha," she said. She stared at me for a moment, then made a slashing motion with her hands. I realized too late that I was completely naked.
"What are you, little boy?" she asked.
"Uhmy name's Tobias," I said.
She shook her head. "I don't want your name. I want to know what you are."
"I'm a human," I said. "Sort of. I'm part Andalite, part human, part hawk. Happy now?"
She nodded. "I am a chupacabra, one of the blessed few."
"What do you want with me?" I asked.
She smiled. "You are at the perfect age. The age where boys are beginning to taste the apple, but know not what it is they taste. Perfect."
I was having trouble trying to understand what she was saying. "Look, just tell me what you want, okay?"
She grinned slowly, revealing her sharp teeth. "You."