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Chapter Four: Nightmare
I was running through a dark forest, following the trail of silvery blood. I blinked up at the moon and howled. I was a wolf, a dark shadow sprinting silently among the trees. I found it then, the unicorn, stumbling through the leaves. The smell of fear and pain was so strong and thick it almost overwhelmed me. I growled, dropping saliva in big gobs around my feet.
The unicorn gave me a pleading look, but it didn't back away. I was about to leap and sink my teeth into its neck when I remembered...
A mere flicker through my mind, but it had definatly been there. I was human. I backed up, growling. Then I turned and started padding away, looking over my shoulder once more to remind the unicorn what I could have done. Why it didn't kick me... ...why didn't it kick me or run? My mind was too clouded with hunger to think. Or was it hunger...
Something wasn't right. There was something else. I stopped, my ears twitching. Then I saw the bright eyes flashing in the dark shadow that had conceled it.
The dark shape lunged and sank it's teeth into my leg. I howled and rolled over, my teeth finding the soft skin of its neck. I felt blood por over me, warm and sticky. Then I stopped. My fur was morphing into pinky flesh, my claws retracting into my usual uncut nails. I screamed as the thing bit my shoulder. I was dying. The shadow was eating me alive...
I sat up and almost went flying into the wall. I could taste blood. I wiped the back of my hand across my mouth. It came back bloody. I looked down at myself. I was coated in a dark, sticky substance. There were faint bruises on my leg and shoulder. They resembled bite marks.
I was suddenly very afraid. This wasn't the world I thought I knew...