Into The Night

Chapter 1:

My feet pounded against the cement, my heart racing, breathing heavy. My lungs felt like they would collapse as they began rubbing together like sandpaper, but I couldn't stop running. The man behind me was still following, chasing me. I couldn't feel anything but fear and adrenaline coursing through my veins.

The streetlights were dim and I could barely see a thing, shadows of large brick buildings, abandoned warehouses with broken, smashed or boarded up windows scattered all over the old abandoned part of the city. Streetlights so far apart, some smashed from streetkids throwing rocks at them in the middle of the night and most just flickering as if a kid were turning the lightswitch on and off periodically

Why did I have to take the short cut home? I thought, again, to myself. I ran faster, my breathing becoming more erradic. I should have taken track with Amanda at school.

Why did the streetlights have to be so far apart? I tilted my head around to see the man was catching up, I picked up my pace but so did he. How could someone run so fast? Oh god.

I really shouldn't have taken the short cut, not with the girls going missing lately. What if this was the man? It probably is. Why can't someone drive past? But even I knew it was ae hopeless to wish because nobody comes down this part of town anymore. I cut the corner, sprinting faster but he managed to keep up.

My foot hit a bit of uneven, cracked cement, my foot twisting at an odd angle, I screamed out in pain as I collapsed to the ground, my body continued to slide after the impact. I rolled over onto my stomach, ready to push myself back up but a piercing jolt of pain jolted up through my ankle towards my knee, I closed my eyes and sucked in air. Crap," I whimpered, sounding more like a whisper, barely inaudible for my ears. I fell back down not able to handle the pain. He was oh-so close now, about ten metres from me, if that. The dim light hit him and I finally seen him and sucked in the air between my teeth, gasping. If looks could kill I'd be dead a thousand times over.

I scurried backwards on my hands. "No, no, no. Go away!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, my voice breaking. Oh God. Please help me. I swear I'll go to church every Sunday, well every now and then, I'll think of you when I sleep in though. That's good enough, right? "Help me!"

"Nobody can hear you," he drawled. His voice was husky and he wasn't breaking a sweat or panting. I couldn't say the same for myself though. Large canine-like teeth glistened in the light. No, no, not real. Can't be. Folklore. He's probably from a cult. No. Just no!

He bent down staring at me, he was so close I could feel his hot breath in my face. He grabbed me by my hair and jerked me up off the ground, a bloodcurling scream escaped my throat, ringing through my ears, deafening. The man flinched at the intensity.

No. My head jerked back as he pulled my hair, as he licked his lips, I realised he was staring at my neck. My stomach turned and I felt like I was going to be sick. He opened his mouth again, and I seen his abnormally large canine teeth for the second time. Fake, fake, fake, I thought to myself. A moment later a twinge of pain hit my throat and his hands let go of my hair and moved to the back of my head, supporting it. He moaned.

Oh god. Mum is going to kill me if he doesn't. I was feeling lightheaded and woozy, my mind becoming all cloudy, becoming weary and tired. Oh my, he's really drinking my blood, I thought, gross!

I tried to hold on, I really did. Warmth spread through my body, slowly, starting at my neck, spreading through my shoulders, fingers and legs, toes and face. Feeling oblivous to what was happening and everything just seemed so right in the world. Maybe this wasn't so bad after all. A slow smile spread over my lips and I moaned slightly. Suddenly the feeling was gone as suddenly as it came.

Then suddenly he slammed my head into the concrete, and if I had time at all to be shocked I would be but just like that black stars danced my vision and then everything went black.