"Silent!" Matt whined, holding Echo in his hands as he went to where I currently located, which was the living room. "Silent! Silent! Silent!" He repeated over and over again as he ran straight to me.

I, who was reading a book, looked up at Matt's yelling. "Yes Matt?" I asked, popping a Hershey kiss in my mouth. I looked over to see Matt with a sad look on his face. "What is it?" I closed my book, bookmarking the page I was on and set it down beside me.

"Echo is sick!" Matt replied, plopping down next to me. He held Echo in his hands, giving the cat to me so I could take a look at it. He bit his lip, whining.

I held the black cat, looking closely at him. "Hmmm..." I hummed, noticing a weird black goopy substance coming from Echo's mouth. "Ew..." I said, wiping off the goop on my pants only to have more fall from it. "Matt go get me a towel please, and quick!" I stated, holding the black cat on the table as the ink trailed down my arms. "Matt! Hurry!" I cried, feeling something entirely wrong with Echo.

Echo wasn't acting like himself. Actually, he was frothing at the mouth with his black icky stuff that was instantly covering my body.

Matt came back with some towels only to discover I was covered in that black stuff. It seemed alive somehow. It was covering my body in a sticky manner that Matt didn't see something coming for him. He turned around to see a large wolf in the kitchen, a black wolf with yellow glowing eyes. "Uh... Silent?" He asked.

"I'm busy at the moment Matt. What is it?" I asked, setting Echo down to remove the nasty stuff from my body.

Matt let out a shriek as the wolf pinned him down on the floor, snapping at his neck. He tried to keep it away from his neck, but it was inching closer to biting it. He closed his eyes, trying to hone in his inner vampire only to hear a hurt dog noise and the weight lifted off of him. He opened his eyes again to see me in my demon form, snarling at the wolf.

I summoned my shadow claws, aiming for the wolf Hertz in the kitchen. I lashed my tail out, pouncing at the monster and slashing it to shreds leaving only a yellow gem on the ground. I placed the gem on the tablet. I sighed, looking at the icky stuff on my arms. "Eugh, what is this stuff?" I stuck out my tongue.

"Silent?" Matt asked standing up to talk to his friend. "What happened?"

I sighed, "That was a Hertz. The thing I hunt at night, but I have no idea what it's doing in here though." I replied, cracking my knuckles. I flicked my ears a bit, hearing something odd.

"WAHHH!" Edd screamed from inside his room.

I dashed up the stairs to find Edd on the floor with an angry bear on his bed. I snarled at the Hertz in anger, pouncing on it as I tried to kill it. The bear was strong as it shoved me back and into the hallway where Matt and Edd were cowering. I groaned in pain, looking up to see the bear swipe at my face. I yelled, kicking it away before plunging straight down into the creature's heart, tearing away its gem.

"Silent, what's happening?" Matt asked, holding up a terrified Edd as he held tightly onto Ringo.

I wiped the blood off my cheek. "I have no idea guys, they usually only spawn outside of buildings and at night... Where's Tom?" I asked.

"He's in his room." Edd answered, pulling Ringo closer to him as he and Matt stuck close by to me. "Tom's strong though, he can handle these monsters right?" Edd asked.

I sighed, "He may be strong Edd, but I don't know he can kill them to where they give out a gem. You see before these Hertz got loose on my island, they were very docile creatures. We only caged them up because they were infected with a toxin that screwed with their bodies. Usually only beings from that island could take out these creatures, like myself. I don't know if Tom can take out them, he might stun them for a moment or he can luckily get them to revert back to a gem. I don't know how Tom became a monster, he might have the properties as the monsters on my island." I explained, walking to Tom's room to find it bust open and a semi transformed Tom calmly walk out. "He seems fine."

Tom took a swig of his flask before capping it back. He looked over to see me, Edd, and Matt by the side. "What's up?" He asked, flicking his tail to the side. He was probably unaware of the monsters in the house.

"Why're you half transformed?" I asked him, peering into his room for any gems on the floor or bed. I didn't see any.

"All I know I was playing around with Susan, and suddenly I was transformed. I guess my monster instincts sensed something and reacted automatically?" He guessed, yawning a bit. His ears twitched before he shoved me out of the way and grabbed a large shadowy snake creature. It writhed in his clutches. "I'm guessing this is the reason?"

I held my head, getting up to glare at Tom. "Yeah, there's a bunch of Hertz in the house for some reason. They usually don't spawn in buildings though or in the middle of the day. Something must be attracting them." I concluded, tapping my chin with my claw. "Just kill it Tom."

Tom nodded, snapping its neck as it faded away into a yellow gem. He held it up to his face, "What do I do with this?"

""Give it to me. I need those." I replied, taking it away from Tom and stuffing it into my pocket. I looked at the guys before me and thought. "Go to my room, its been warded with seals. It's the safest room in the house. I'll go look for the spawner." I motioned towards my room as I headed down the stairs. Before I could go any farther, I felt a claw on my shoulder.

"Silent, are you sure you don't need help?" Tom asked in concern. "We are your friends. You don't need to do this alone, we're not normal remember?" He removed his claws from my shoulder, awaiting for a response.

I smiled at them, "It's cool. It's my job remember? I gotta do this alone. I don't want you guys to get hurt." I replied, walking down the stairs to find the source of the monsters. I felt bad about turning down Tom, but I didn't want them to get hurt. This was my mission and no one else's. I suddenly remembered that Echo was down here, and I ran into the living room to find it completely back and inky. "What the fuck?" I asked no one in particular as there was a bright yellow light in the center of the room pulsating.

The center pulsated rapidly as something lunged out and grabbed me. I let out a scream, hearing footsteps from upstairs. "NO STAY UP THERE!" I screamed at them, hearing the footsteps stop. I nudged my arms out of the ink and sliced through the binds. I fell to my knees, glaring at the inky substance forming a cocoon around the yellow gem. I needed to get that gem, but first I had to find the monster controlling it. "Where are you, you little shit?" I asked, wielding my claws out.

The room pulsated as something roared. The room vibrated with the sound, echoing throughout the house. "I'm right here you monster! Come and get me!" I shouted, waiting for it to come out.

Something came out of the cocoon and latched onto my legs, pulling me up and into the air. Ink began to trail down my legs, slithering into my clothes. Tiny hands began to latch onto me from the larger limbs.

I slashed at the hands and limbs in a fast motion. After I landed safely on the ground again, I lunged at the gem in the middle of the room. I grabbed a hold of it, curling my body around it as the inky substance began to slash and claw at me to drop it. "I'm not gonna drop it, you shit! Just be a nice Hertz and give me the gem!" I cried out, wincing a bit when I felt something stab my side.

A head rose up in front of me, startling me badly, and screamed in my face. I raised my right hand up and stabbed the head right in the face, clenching it and effectively breaking it down as the inky substance evaporated, and I was floating in midair near the gem. Everything was cast in a white light as I looked at a little blob forming near the jewel. It looked like I was in a different space. Everything was just white, a total white room with nothing in it except for me, the blob, and the yellow gem.

I reached my hand towards the jewel only to stop when a purring noise sounded. I looked over to the blob to see Echo rubbing up against me, purring affectionately before sitting back to stare at me with his yellow eyes. I suddenly realized something. "It was you, Echo." I said.

Echo nodded, pushing the gem to my hands. He meowed.

I kinda didn't want to take the gem because if I did, I might kill of Echo. I really liked Echo. Everyone at the house did, even Tom who just usually shook it off. I hesitated before deciding to do a stupid thing. I snapped a small part of the jewel off and shoved it inside of Echo's body. I took the rest with me as the room faded to black, and my eyes closed. "I hope this works."