The leafs of the tress rustled with the whisper of the night wind. The black endless ocean was speckled with bright stars that watched a young girl walk down a deserted street amongst dark houses below them.
The girl trudged down the sidewalk pulling at her backpack and whishing she hadn't brought her geometry and physics textbooks which tried their best to pull her down into the earth. She walked up the driveway of a dark azure house which appeared like the color of sapphire in the waning moonlight. Taking her key she walked to the door and opened it.
"Mom, Dad. I'm home." She called out. Silence.
The house was completely dark except for the light emanating from the TV in the living room. She threw her heavy backpack to the side. Walking to the doorway she turned on the light only to freeze in complete terror.
"Mommy?"
Her mom was pinned up to the wall, blood trickling down the side of her mouth. A dark creature standing about six feet stood in front of her mom. It was black and parts of its skin were flaking off revealing dry patches of ash gray skin Instead of hands it had two long sharp looking claws, claws which were embedded into her mothers' heart. Jerkily her mom's head turned to her and her mom mouthed Ishta, run before going limp. Ishta then noticed someone sprawled across the blood-stained white carpet of the room, her dad. A sob came out before she could stop it. The black creatures' head jerked around, its blood-shot glowing eyes staring at her, seizing up its prey. It then yanked its claws from her mother and the body fell to the ground with a heavy Thud.
A scream clawed its way up her throat and burst through her lips, echoing across the house. The creature leaped at her and turning on her heel she scrambled away. She took a sharp turn, sliding a bit on the wooden floor in the hallway. She ran through the door as she heard the creature take the sharp turn and give a inhuman high-pitched shriek as it slid across the floor and slammed itself against one of the hallway walls.
Outside she ran down the street, tears streaming down her face, panic and grief clutching at her heart. She could hear the creature running in a abnormal gait. She was fast but the creature was even faster and was quickly closing the space between them. The wind shrieked and whipped at her long onyx-black hair. Suddenly sharp claws slashed at across her back, tearing through the back of her shirt and then deeply slicing her skin. She gasped in pain and stumbled. Ishta fell down screaming. Suddenly there was an eruption of light around her. Then darkness.