A young, scantillay clad woman stood under the awning of the bus stop. She could not have been more than twenty, twenty-one at the utmost. She wore tight low-riding blue jeans, a tight tanktop that ended where her midrif began, and a pair of black stillhetto boots. She chatted nonchalantly on her purple cell phone.
Little did she know she was being watched.
A barely visible figure sat hunched over on the roof of the building to the young lady's back. It's eyes outlined her figure in shades of red, orange, and yellow; almost as if the creature had night vision goggles for eyes. Through the creatures eyes, the young lady's major arteries and heart appeared in a deep rouge. The creature, being an experianced hunter, knew that now was the time to strike; while the prey was distracted. With a malicious grin, the creature began to slink away.
"Denise, you would not believe the party! Girl, you shoulda been there!" The young lady gushed to her friend on the cell phone. She paused as the person on the other end of the phone was speaking.
The creature slowly tip-toed down the fire escape stairs. It could feel it's blood lust growing with every step it took towards it's meal. Just before it prepared to go down the last flight of stairs, it twisted it's head around the cornor of the building to make sure the girl was still alone and in plain sight.
"Yeah, he was cute and all. But with as many girls was hangin on him! He probably got somethin' I don't want!" The girl continued to talk, completely unaware of the danger mere feet from her.
Suddenly, she heard a faint Clang sound, coming from the allyway.
The girl stopped her conversation for a moment to glance over at the allyway. Shaking her head she returned to the phone.
"Nothin'. Just some damn cat."
Again the girl began to listen as her friend on the other end of the phone began to chatter away.
The creature had succesfully gotten off the fire escape without anyone noticing. It smirked to itself. It watched the prey as it slowly crept up behind it.
"Humans," it thought "such easy sustinence."
The girl yelped as she felt something snatch her left ankle. In her surprise, she dropped the cell phone; which unfortunately landed between the grates of the sewer drain. She tugged her leg away, taking frightened notice that whatever had grabbed her had left deep claw marks in the leather of her boot. She backed away from the awning and into the light of the streetlamp. She screamed when she saw the claws, and the pair of red-silver eyes.
She turned and began to run. Normally, she believed she was a good runner; not especially fast, but able to run far longer than anyone else she knew. But, when she had run in the past, she hadn't been wearing high stillhetto boots. Wobbling, she continued to run down the desserted street. When she dared to look behind her, she couldn't see the entire creature stalking her. It was as if the creature was only allowing hertoseethe clawsand the eyes. She refused to let herself look again.
The creature enjoyed games like this. Allowing the human to believe they could get away somehow made the game more fun. It chased her for near to four blocks before itbegan to get boring. With a mighty leap, the creature was determined to end the hunt.
The young lady screamed as a searing pain shot through her entire right leg. She fell painfully to the ground, grinding in dirt and debri. She looked in a panic towards the cause of the pain. The entire back of her right knee had been torn out. All the muscles and tendons that had held her leg together were ripped like frayed bits of wire out of the flesh in her knee. Blood flowed freely from the wound, but the young lady had a good idea that her running career was the least of her worries at this point.
She looked up, expecting just to see the red-silver eyes; but she was wrong. The creature was allowing itself to be seen. It slowly revealed it's pale and gaunt face, surrounded by dark, limp hair. It darkly smiled, almost as a gorrilla would, to reveal it's two extremely long and extremely sharp looking fangs accompanied by a mass of sharp minature fangs where normal teeth would be. The young lady began to scream.
The creature lept at it's wounded victem, and in one movement had torn out the entire throat of the young lady. It greedily lapped up the blood that pulsed from the wound in the girls final moments. When her heart no longer supplied the blood, the creature dug it's fangs into the meat of her throat and began to suck. It made grotesque grunting and sighing noises as it drained her blood.
Thirty minutes later, the creature slunk back into the allyway closes to it's victem. The girls body remained on the desserted sidewalk, her mouth still in a silent scream. The creature licked at it's fingers in an almost feline manner, ridding it's hands of blood. It sighed contently.
"Good for tonight." It thought mechanically. "More later."
Gohan awoke well rested the next morning. He rolled out of bed and calmly put on his training gi. But as he did, he noticed something strange. He had mud under his finger nails. He could have sworn that he had scrubbed his hands the night before when he had showered.
"Must have been more tired than I thought." He said to himself. He walked downstairs to the kitchen. Out of habit, he flipped the TV to the local news. He listened half heartedly as the weather and sports were announced by the well dressed man and woman behind the desk.
"In other news, a youngwoman was found dead this morning."
Gohan stared at the TV as the report went on.
A picture of a pretty young lady flashedover the screen, quite possibly a senior picture."Keesha Buzsda was found dead this morning. Police believe a ritual gang hazing right may have gone wrong. If you have any information on the murder of Keesha Buzsda, please contact yourlocal police." The news lady read into the camera.
"How horrible." Gohan thought. "I hope they catch whoever did that."
Without anything further, Gohan set out to find Piccolo for a good spar.