Courtney's Death

Her breath came out in foggy gusts as her legs pounded harder against the cracked pavement. This was routine, this was a life, and this was what she wanted. She ran harder down the road, un aware that she was no longer at the top of the food-chain. Red, cracked eyes watched her from behind the trees, glowing in the early morning sun. But she didn't see them; her eyes were focused on the road ahead. Unfortunately for her, she wasn't as fast as she wished to be, her watcher could tell. It moved quickly behind her, the sent of her fresh blood was intoxicating to its brainless corpse. It was driven on pure instinct with no human emotion or morals left in it. Grabbing her by the shoulders it pushed her down, going into a tumble and ending up pinning her down in the middle of the deserted road. A scream was built up inside of her throat, but it never made it past her shaking lips. Its rotted teeth tore at her neck and shoulders, chewing on her thin pale flesh quickly as she bled out on the street. It didn't take long for the life to be completely drained from her eyes. Her flesh was no longer fresh to its taste and soon it left her body alone, not wanting to be around when she woke up as a creature similar to the one that had taken her life.

She was a newly born monster, one with a sense of where to go to feed, several miles behind her, and back to the place her human mind once called home. The drive for fresh food was the only thing she knew now; it was more obvious in her eyes than by the looks of her thin body.