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Prologue
I can hear them… "Tear..sa…"the voices… they won't stop"Tear..sa..."they're echoing in my head, sheathing my thoughts into pure terror. "Tearsa? TEARSA!? Where are you?!" I can't move. "Tearsa! I'm scared!" I can't speak "TEARSA!" I can only listen, and hear them suffer. "TEARSA! HELP ME!"
Chapter 1
"Are you scared yet?" says my older brother Dustin as he spiders up my arm with his hand, "No…keep going." I say as I slightly pull away from him and adjust the blanket on my shoulders. "Okay.. The Raptora grabs her, and lifts her up at least 100 feet in the air gently plucking her arms and legs off one, by one, riipp, Riipp, RIIPP!" he gives me an evil smile and gently tugs at my arms and legs as if they were about to get ripped off. I catch myself jumping each time he touched me. "B-but why is the Raptora k-killing her?" I say trying to control my body from quivering, "Well, do you remember the girls name in the story so far?" I examined the ceiling as I went into deep thought, "Um, is it…Theresa?" I said trying to act like I wasn't scared. "Correct, but do you know why her name is so close to yours?" He questioned with a smirk. "N-no." I stammered. Dustins face became very stern. "Because I'm warning you, that the Raptora will come to get… YOU!" He yelled while widening his eyes. I quickly ducked under my tattered blanket, shutting my eyes and shaking like a leaf. "Th-that's not true!" I said taking a small peek out a ripped hole. He caught sight of my eye and leaned in close. "Oh really? Well don't come cryin' to me when you get older..." He gently stepped off the bed and exited the room. 'when I get older?' I thought.'What about when I get older?What will happen to me in my future?'as I lay resting lifeless under my blanket, A motherly shout came from the floor below. "Tearsa! Time for bed!" I sat up straight and stretched out of my original position. I leaped off my bed and landed on the carpet with a thud. I felt relieved nothing had snatched my leg and pulled me under my bed. I ran down the wooden stairs and slid down the polished floor of the hall with my socks. Once I urched to a stop I launched myself into the living room where my parents lay lazily on the couch. I skipped over to the seat and without hesitation I pounced onto my fathers chest. He groaned loudly and my mother laughed softly, "Tearsa Inconnu Misterie, I thought I told you to go to bed." Said my mother as she lightly stoked my copper brown hair back. "I know... but I had to say goodnight, and give you a hug." I buried my head between her neck and her shoulder and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. She looked down at me and spoke almost in a whisper. "Your almost 10 Tearsa, you should be moving past this..." I sat up straight "I know, but Dustin told me a scary story, and I came down to see if the Raptora hadn't already... taken you." I said picking at the loose strings on the sofa "A Raptora? haha, what a funny name... but sweetheart, you shouldn't worry about silly things like that. were here to protect you. surely nothing bad will come to us." Suddenly I felt uneasy, 'Why does she sound so nervous?' I met her hazel eyes again and nodded. "Okay, your right. I'm sorry. I guess fifteen year old boys just kinda... 'get you'." She smiled and began to laugh. My father smiled at me and rubbed my shoulder with his palm. " well kiddo, time for you to skidaddle! you should've been asleep by now." He said lifting me off his chest and placing me on the floor. I giggled. "Okay. 'night mom, 'night dad." I jumped to my feet and scuffed to the stair case. I glanced back towards my parents and gave them one last smile, and lifted my foot to make the first step. the air became heavy. and a raspy voice echoed throughout my brain; "Tear..sa.." Trying to hide my struggle, I hurried up the stairs. 'why does it feel like somethings watching me? ...They're in my head! Stop.. y-your scaring me!' "Tear..sa..." Visions from later that night ran through my head making me even more terrified, 'The Raptora will come to get…YOU!'... 'Nothing bad will come to us'... 'Don't come cryin' to me when you get older.' I held my head and started breathing faster. 'it hurts..whats happening inside my head!?'My flash-backs finally ended, and I found myself at the door of my brothers room. I hesitated for a second, but forced myself to knock. I waited. no one answered. I knocked again, and still no answer. 'What could he be doing in there? Oh no.. what if the voices got him too?!' I quickly shoved the door open. "DUSTIN!" He sat on his bed with his nose inside a book. "what do you want dork I was busy catching up on my comics." I ran in and gave him a huge hug "I'm so glad you're okay!" I could feel his hands forcing me off his shoulders "Get off of me!" I stepped back with a pouted face. "…what? Stop looking at me like that!" I twirled around and sat down on his bed. "Dustin...Something very strange has been happening.." He gave me a confused look as I finished my sentence and eventually rolled his eyes. "You know I just made that stupid story up right? anyways, what do you want?" I sat up straight "...I want to know how it ends." Dustin gently rose from his bed and walked to his book shelf where he kept all of his books. he set a crease in the book he was currently reading and slid it in between two fat books, then looked back at me "You'll have to find that out yourself, you will soon know that you are not an ordinary 9-year-old, you are… how do I say it? Special. Like mom, dad, and me." I also lifted from the bed and walked to him cautiously, "How are we special? In what kind of way?" I said feeling shivers going up and down my spine "We are, what people used to call us, Unknown Creatures."