Sadness
Sterling
I had a normal life. Or, at least, relatively normal for Ithaca, New York. I had a mom and only a mom, but some kids aren't that lucky. I lived in a run down apartment near the center of town. That all changed on November 1st, 2013. When He came. The Man in Black.
I woke up to the sun shining through my bedroom window and my mom yelling.
"Sterling Percival Theriault! Get down here this instant you are going to be late for school!"
"Coming, Ma!'' I replied. I quickly threw on jeans and a yellow t-shirt and sprinted downstairs.
"Bye!" I yelled as I ran out the door, right into my best friends, Azele and Kris.
"Geez Sterling, watch where you're going!" Kris exclaimed.
"Hey, Silver!" Azele said. I met Azele when I was a baby and our parents lived in a duplex together, she couldn't say Sterling so she started calling me Silver, and we have been friends ever since we met. Kris I met in second grade when we both got expelled for "destroying school property". It's not our fault that they left the keys in the bus and there was a tree in the way, but of course we got kicked out anyway.
"Where are you guys going after school?" Azele's voice shook me out of my reveries.
"I'm going to this new bowling alley called Orbit Bowling or something." Kris replied.
"What about you, Silver?"
"Sleep." I responded.
"Where's that?" Kris asked.
"In my bed."
"Oh that kind of sleep."
"Is there another kind?"
"Well-"
"Boys!" Azele interrupted, "Save your bickering for later! We're here."
"Where?" Kris asked.
"Where do you think, idiot."
"Oh."
Mogador Middle School rose high for a school with 7 stories and about 50 classrooms. We were all in seventh grade and had a lot of the same classes. Me and Kris were kind of the class clowns, but we don't have any friends other than ourselves and Azele. We then walked through the double doors at the entrance.
"Woah." We all said simultaneously. Papers were strewn everywhere and people were hastily stuffing miscellaneous items from their lockers into their backpacks and running off to their homerooms so they wouldn't be late.
"Oh yeah, it's the last day of school!" Kris exclaimed. We walked together to the same homeroom. The next few hours were a blur. No one could concentrate because most people were freaking out about school being out so we didn't get any work done. Not that I'm complaining or anything, but it was kind of annoying. On the way home, we stopped at the bowling alley for Kris. Then, we came to Azele's house and I was left to walk home alone.
Slam! I heard a noise coming from my mom's room. I looked at the clock and saw it said 11:47. I got up and stealthily sneaked around the corner to my mom's room. I saw a black wolf with strange markings all over it boring down on my mom.
"MOM!" I screamed and she woke with a start, only to see a wolf staring intently at her.
"Run!" She yelled back and just as she did, she kicked the wolf off of her and a melee began between the two of them. She was no match for the beast's power though and all I could do was sit there and watch as the white wolf devoured my mom.
"No!" I screamed and rage clouded my vision and a jet of water slammed into the wolf, knocking it off the bed and out the window, but as it did, I saw it change into a man completely black, as if it was the wolf's opposite personality. I assumed I summoned the water in my rage, but how? I didn't have time to figure out. I heard a small foom and saw bright orange flames flickering outside.
I could hear the creature climbing back up the stairs. I ran to my room and leaped out the window. The moment I hit the ground, pain flared up my leg and I assumed that I had broken it, but I had to keep moving. I hopped into our garage and took out two baseball bats. Then I went inside and got the car keys, started the car, and drove away using one foot, hoping to outspeed the thing. I stopped the car when I assumed that I was safe, because I couldn't hear the creature loping
behind me.
Then, out of nowhere, the creature, in man form, grabbed me and hoisted me up by my neck. I imagined he could smell my fear, being part wolf. I struggled, desperately trying to get away and get my bat so I could fight this thing with even a slight chance of defeating it. I managed to kick it in the stomach and it recoiled, doubling over and wheezing. I didn't waste a moment and grabbed both of the bats, charging the man. I swung both bats straight at his head. The man, still being dazed, didn't have time to react and I could hear his skull shatter. He screamed in pain and collapsed, but somehow, he sat straight up and its flattened head regained its shape. It spoke with a deep, rasping voice.
"You may have won this time, but you won't when I bring my brethren with me to destroy you!" Then he vanished and I saw another man, one who looked strangely familiar, rushing towards me. Then I blacked out.