Okay. I know this has no place in FanFiction, but have you been to FictionPress lately? It absolutely SUCKS. So I'm posting it here anyway.

No, this has nothing to do with cheesy romance or anything. I just thought it would be fun to write a story about vampires, werewolves, and a different creature I came up with (No name for it yet, but there will be soon). So . . . Yeah. Enjoy.

Oh, and no, this will not affect my writing Dead Space: Trio at all. In any way, shape or form. The stories will still come out at most a week apart, and they won't stop for a while. This is story is kinda like a side project of a side project (DS: Trio is my side project to writing a full-on novel. Ask me about it some time, but not if you're afraid of a really lengthy reply)

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The wolves ran down the alleyway, leaping over a fallen dumpster and skirting around a car. They suddenly stopped. Snow fell gently through the air and the wind blew, ever so slightly. The biggest one sniffed a few times, then smashed through the brick wall on the left side of the alleyway. The other wolves followed, leaping through the small hole the first wolf had left behind and emerging in a large, echoing pitch-black room. The wolves snarled; their eyesight was not as good as their target's, and the target himself knew that. Their eyes gradually adjusted until the room was only dim. There was a flicker of movement on the rafters, followed by a hissing noise. The wolves tensed, their heads snapping up to look at the source. A bat-like creature jumped from the rafters, gliding unsteadily to the ground. It hissed once more. One of its wings had a large gash in it. Blood still dripped from it.

"Why have you chased me so?" Came a raspy voice.

The biggest wolf howled, and stepped forward. The bat-like creature hissed and spat a glob of liquid at him. The wolf howled as his fur hissed and melted, his flesh becoming raw as layers of it dissolved to liquid. He shook his body, knowing the creature's acid could not harm him any further than pain could; already, the wound was healing. Soon it would be nothing more than a scar.

"Leave me be!" The bat-creature rasped before spitting another glob at a different wolf.

The creature leaped back into the rafters and began clawing at the roof in a last-ditch attempt to escape. One of the wolves leaped up and grabbed the creature's leg with its jaws, dragging it forcefully back to the ground and slamming it down. The creature was dazed and didn't get back up immediately, giving the wolves all the time they needed to rip the wretched beast apart. The scent of blood filled the air as the wolves howled their delight.

Outside, a man in a thick black cloak stood by the house, listening with super-sensitive ears to the goings on within the building. He cocked his head as he heard the wolves finishing their meal. He heard the familiar bone-crunching of transformation, and listened as humanoid footsteps grew closer to the door he was standing beside. The door creaked open.

The biggest wolf, now a large man clad in a rudimentary loincloth, opened the alley-side door to the building he'd just smashed down the wall of. He stepped outside into the swirling snow, his feet crunching into the few inches of powder that had collected into the ground. He halted, his nose flaring, as he smelled a foreign sent - one he had not smelled in a very long time. He looked around in the moonlight for the source of the very fresh smell. His eyes were immediately drawn to a patch of snow ten feet in front of him, where the smell pooled and gathered. He walked to it and saw two footprints - one left foot, one right foot - but nothing else. He looked up at the rooftops on either side of him, but saw nothing but perfectly undisturbed snow on both sides. The man stared in silence for many minutes before sighing.

"Let us run." He said, leaping into the air. Before he hit the ground, he was a wolf once more, soaring through the side streets of the city as a blur.

Before you ask, yes, I am a fan of excessively short prologues. Fear not, for Chapter One is on its way soon.

Read, Share, Review, Repeat. Adios!

-Wolf