Disclaimer: Many of the creatures mentioned in this story are from mythologies and other stories, therefore some creatures are fully owned by their original creators, some may not be the same as their originals but they will be sharing the same names. There will be however original creatures as well.

That's all I hope you all enjoy!

Cryptids, beings that may or may not exist in the world, their existence, still a mystery to humans. Creatures such as: Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and Chupacabra are known as cryptids. But they are not the only cryptids to 'exist', though these cryptids are not defined with the dictionary definition of the term, instead they are beings that have not been identified yet, but their existence is true and while many are hidden, some; walk among the human race.

Sayaka Maizono is often bombarded with paparazzi, whenever she was in public, being a popular idol and whatnot, so enjoying her day offs were a lot more challenging than the regular teenage girl. She made it work though, with a simple beanie, thick jacket and sunglasses; the next thing she knew she was a regular teenage girl walking through the crowds of people in the busy city of Towa.

One of the ways she enjoys her free time is by reading books that are in the realms of fantasy and imagination, the idol loves the fact that she can escape the stress of her day to day life as an idol. Going into a cafe Maizono ordered herself a cup of coffee before heading to the park where she settled on a bench to enjoy some reading with her latest book.

The book was named Necronomicon; it was a book which consisted of novels and short stories written by the author H.P Lovecraft.

She doesn't know how much time has passed, but her enjoyment from reading had distracted her from realising that she needed to return home before nightfall. So when she did realise, it was already dusk, Sayaka quickly made a break for it, sprinting out of the park and down the streets trying hard not to let her disguise fall off and reveal her identity to the public. So there she went down the roads out of the city and into a suburban area, she finally reached a large building: that was her school, Hope's Peak Academy; a school for students that were considered the best of the best in a field, or at least that was what her version of the school was like.

Yes, Hope's Peak was split into two different campuses, the main building and the Reverse Course; where regular students attend if they are not considered to be what school calls, 'Ultimate Students'. Sayaka was in the former part of that group.

The idol entered the area of the main campus and walked down a small path that led to another building built with wood, unlike the school buildings this was one of the main campus' dormitories. Sayaka opened the front door and took part of her disguise off, her sunglasses which showed her azure coloured eyes and her beanie which held her flowing long hair of the same colour.

"Ah welcome back Maizono-san." a voice greeted, looking up Sayaka was met by an orange haired woman that wore a white frilly apron over what seemed to be a teal coloured suit.

"Miss Yukizome." eyeing the girl's outfit, Yukizome raised an eyebrow in confusion as to why the famous idol was wearing clothes befitting that of someone who did not care for what they wore.

Noticing her stares, Sayaka began to sheepishly laugh, placing a hand on the back of her head as she did, "I wanted to read a good book outside so I went into the city wearing this as a disguise." the idol explained which caused the older woman to giggle.

"Oh I see, well I hope it was a good read." Yukizome said amused, Sayaka nodded in response before politely excusing herself so that she can change.

"Dinner is at 5!" Yukizome shouted as the young female teen ran up the stairs.

When she arrived at her room, Sayaka quickly stripped down and got changed to her regular outfit which was a white and blue sailor outfit with a pink ribbon that's been tied into a bow; she also wore a blue skirt and black thigh high socks, finally she placed three pins on her hair, a tiny one on her left and two larger ones on the right.

Once she was fully dressed she crashed on her bed with the book she was reading before in hand. She opened the book once more and resumed her reading, letting herself be submerged in the tales once more.

Evening went by in a flash for the idol, dinner then a shower then more reading along with studying and before she knew it, lights out.

During that night Sayaka was woken up by the sound of voices outside of her door, at first she paid them no mind thinking she was probably just hearing things from being half - asleep.

"Gizmo get back here!"

The idol's eyes shot open and she sat up turning her head to her door to listen if the voice would appear again; she listened attentively to nothing since whatever she heard before was no longer there. Thinking it was once again her hearing things Sayaka laid back down and closed her eyes in order to let slumber take her over.

"Gizmo!"

There it was again, a voice was just outside her door and she knew she wasn't hearing this one. Slowly she got up from her bed, still in her pajamas and walked over to her door; then opening it by a crack she peeked out and saw there was nothing outside, but still unsure she then opened it more and leaned her head out to get a better view, she turned her head to the left; nothing then she turned to the right and her eyes widened. In the shadows was a silhouette of a person kneeling down, Sayaka couldn't see their face because one it was dark and two, their back was turned to her.

"Jeez I told you not to run off in the night. What will happen if you get caught?" the silhouette stood up and out of pure reflex Sayaka closed her door as not get caught, however she was not fast enough and the shadow just managed to see the door click into a close.

Sayaka was behind her door, covering her mouth, her heart rapidly beating like it was ready to burst. After some time has passed and she had calmed down, Sayaka opened her door once more and looked around once more to see if the stranger was still there.

To her relief they weren't.

Morning came and it was time for classes, Sayaka sat her classroom in her uniform which was a white collared shirt, brown blazer, black skirt and black thigh high socks with black shoes.

After seeing the intruder in her dorm Sayaka was unable to get proper sleep and this was evident from the fact that several of her classmates had pointed out her fatigued look. Despite her lack of sleep and mind mostly on the intruder, Sayaka was able to perform in her lessons fairly well, though she did have the urge to fall asleep in her math class.

During lunch her tiredness finally caught up with her, she wanted to sleep and she didn't know where she could have one. For some reason despite the main campus only having a select number of students, they still managed to fill every part of the building. The idol thought of returning to the dorms but she knew that they wouldn't allow any student to return to the dorms during school hours. There was only one place left for her to go to: the old building.

The old building was an old campus building that was left alone behind the main campus, Sayaka heard about it when her classmate the Ultimate Clairvoyant said that the place was haunted and that he heard weird noises coming from the building.

Not the type of girl to be afraid of ghosts, Sayaka stomped her way to the old building to search for somewhere to lay down and at that point she didn't care if she was gonna lay on hard wood, she wanted to sleep!

When she arrived Sayaka's mouth was agape and one of her eyes twitching. The building in front of her was a dump, a literal dump! Since the place was made of wood, she could clearly see the moss that had grown on it as well as molds, parts of it were chipping off; and some windows were shattered. From what she could tell, the building was ready to collapse any second, but her tiredness outweighed the fact that she may be in danger. Not hesitating Sayaka entered the run down building and began to search for a place to sleep, it may have been easier if it weren't for the fact that a lot of the classrooms were barricade with old bits of wood or furniture.

During her search for a suitable place to rest, Sayaka began to hear noises coming from within the halls, at first she thought it may have been the wind or birds that managed to enter the building. However when the noises began to become more violent and louder, she could no longer blame nature or wildlife, now she had to think that it was either a person or (if her classmate was right) ghosts. As if working with horror movie and horror game logic, instead of turning around and leaving, Sayaka alternatively walked closer to the direction of the noise!

Floors creaked at every step that the idol took, sweat slowly trickled down on the side of her face, and her heartbeat increasing as she got closer and closer to the source. Sayaka was nervous and afraid, but she was also excited and curious. She's read many horror genre based books, all because they gave the best forms of creatures that are not of the human world, so in the case whatever was making the noise was hostile she had many ways of hiding and avoiding it.

She finally reached the source of the noise, it was coming from a room that was closed behind a set of double doors. Before she decided to enter the room, Sayaka pressed her ear against the door to listen to what's going on inside, for some time she heard some steps then grunting, after that it was pure silence. At that point Sayaka thought that the creature may have gone, but what caught her off guard and sent her falling back was the door suddenly swung open.

With an audible yelp Sayka landed on her butt and when she finally looked up after falling back her blue eyes met with hazel ones.

Makoto Naegi could be described as average. Average looks, average lifestyle and average skills. He wasn't anyone important like the rest of the students of Hope's Peak's main campus, in fact at first glance one might assume that he's from the Reverse Course along with the students who are 'talentless' but Makoto is not like those students he had a talent or as he would describe it a trait that gave him access to the main campus. That trait was his luck.

Yes, its ridiculous and Makoto thinks so too, he gained his spot on the main campus through sheer luck and a single roll in a lottery. If it weren't for the school confirming that he was indeed accepted, he may have thought that, him winning a spot to be a student in the most prestigious school in Japan was just a joke.

Yet he found himself packing his bag and being brought in front of Hope's Peak's gates on his first day.

The fact that he had incredible luck, was nothing compared to the life Makoto was living in the shadows. In fact, one might even say that this was nowhere near an average life of a highschool student.

"Gizmo get back here!" Makoto called as he ran around the old campus building which he often visited due to a certain creature that made the building its home.

"Ehehehe~!" in front of Makoto was a small furball no bigger than a rabbit, coloured white with brown spots. It was running away from Makoto with a huge amused smile plastered across its furry face as it continued to giggle and allowed the young man to chase him like a hyperactive dog.

This game of cat and mouse soon escalated as time went on, since it led to Gizmo (the little furball) running out of the old building and into the girls dormitory by climbing an open window which it somehow reached. Because he was the one taking care of Gizmo, Makoto had no choice but to follow the furball into the building. This is what led to Sayaka eventually seeing them in the building, though it was just their silhouettes. When Makoto found out that someone had seen them, he knew they had to get out fast but before they did leave the lucky student went up to the door and checked the nameplate that was displayed next to it and of course it showed Sayaka's name.

Makoto, who didn't know that Sayaka didn't know it was him, now had the problem of explaining to Sayaka why he was in the girls' dorm. Only problem was the fact she didn't seem very well and he didn't want to disturb her so in other words he wasn't able to talk to her throughout the morning.

During lunch Makoto goes to the old building to spend lunch with Gizmo, the only reason why he did was so that he can feed the little guy his favourites: an assortment of fruits. After they have eaten Makoto would then just relax or if Gizmo was in the mood to annoy him, run around the room trying to catch the furball after it had stolen something from the luckster. In fact it was the reason why it was believed that the old building was haunted, in actuality it was just Makoto and Gizmo running around the building with Makoto screaming at Gizmo.

Makoto tried his best to keep the existence of little guy a secret from everyone in his school, despite the racket they kept on creating, he had to hide the furball since he was afraid that his classmates may all start to gawk over Gizmo or even worse tell the whole world about his existence, which will also lead to tons of problems, and he knew that one of his classmates had a big enough mouth that they would babble about Gizmo to just about anyone. Luckily for him said classmates is known for their tall tales so maybe them blabbing about the little guy wouldn't be so bad because no one would believe him, but that wasn't a risk he was going to take.

Returning to lunch time, Makoto had just finished eating when Gizmo decided to grab the boy's phone from his pocket and started to run around the room they were in, which was the old principal's office. When he finally got his phone back, he decided to take Gizmo out so that the furball can run around the building like a dog in a new home. However when he opened the door, he heard a yelp and looked down only to see his blue haired classmate on the floor. Her eyes locked with his, both of them surprised with their meeting.

Now that he has been caught twice, Makoto had no choice but to invite Sayaka into the room to explain to her the situation and about Gizmo, maybe he could have just said that Gizmo was a robot but that option went out the window when Gizmo sat on Sayaka's lap and she began to feel the little guy.

"So, what is he?" Sayaka asked squeezing Gizmo.

Makoto sweated anxiously not really wanting to explain but he had no choice, "He's what you call a gremlin." the boy confessed and Sayaka's face said it all; a mixture of confusion and shock was written all over it.

"A gremlin? Like those from the movie Gremlins?" the idol asked with a raised eyebrow and Makoto only nodded in response. Sayaka then began to guffaw at the lucky student which made him blush a bright red colour out of pure embarrassment, even he knew how ridiculous his answer sounded.

Wiping tears off the corner of her eyes, Sayaka then looked at the luckster again who was still red. Despite her reaction to his answer she knew he wasn't lying, after all he was Makoto Naegi, the most honest boy in her class; so honest that he was practically an open book.

"How is that possible? I thought Gremlins were only in movies." hearing the genuine curiosity in her voice Makoto glanced up at her only to see that she was examining Gizmo.

"Well gremlins actually exist, they're not the same as the one in the movies but they do exist." Sayaka was at awe, her fondness for anything other worldly took over as she began to touch Gizmo all over its body examining every part of him.

"Is he a Mogwai then?"

"No there's such thing all gremlins look the same, the bad ones in the movies don't exist."

"So can you feed him after midnight?"

"Well yeah there's no problem with that."

"What's his name?"

"Gizmo. Like the one in the movies since he looks really similar to him."

"How do you know all gremlins look the same?"

"I've met a lot of them in the past."

"How do you know they haven't mutated yet?"

"That's not possible. Gremlins are like humans in terms of anatomy if they were to consume anything a human cannot the results would be the same. The only thing that's different with gremlins is that they're herbivores whereas humans are omnivores; if gremlins were to consume meat they would immediately vomit or excrete it out."

Sayaka looked at her classmate impressed by how much he knew about the gremlins because these things only ever existed in fiction for her, yet the boy in front of her had been living with them and studying them, which for her was envious since she was a nerd for fictional creatures.

"How come they've never been found?"

"Gremlins usually deep within forests and in burrows, its the main way they protect themselves from predators. Not only that, they can pass off as a rabbit since they are around the same size when fully grown."

Sayaka then asked why he hasn't told anyone about Gizmo and upon hearing her question Makoto's face dropped, an expression of grimace awashed his countenance.

"If the existence of gremlins were to be exposed to the public what would you think would happen?" Makoto asked in a deep serious tone. "Scientists would flock to Japan to find their habitats, capture them and examine them in any way, shape or form. When we are faced with something unknown our first thought is to treat that thing as dangerous. That fear of the unknown is what makes it difficult for humanity to befriend other beings that are not the same, heck we even do it our own race... So do you really think that humans are ready to just co-exist with other creatures, when we can barely co-exist with each other?"

The idol was saddened by the luckster's words, but she knew he was right. She wanted to share her new friend to others but after hearing Makoto explain the consequences of doing such a thing immediately made her change her mind. She didn't want to risk the creatures' homes to be destroyed and them taken for who knows what sort of examination, that alone outweighed her own desires.

"I promise Naegi-kun, I will not tell a soul about Gizmo." Sayaka declared, the boy looked at her and saw in her eyes that she was telling the truth. With a smile Makoto then told her he trusted her words which made Sayaka beam with happiness.

After their conversation Makoto went back to the main campus to buy something to drink for him and Sayaka, when he returned he was met by a peacefully sleeping Sayaka and Gizmo. Sitting across the two Makoto placed one of the drinks down and took a sip out off his while he stared at the two with a soft smile.

"It seems like things are about to get interesting around here."

Hope you guys enjoyed the read, its a casual story that I wanted to publish, unlike the Fairy Tail fanfic this one doesn't have a proper schedule on when its published, its not top priority but it is something I wanted to work on.

As usual though opinions, criticisms and questions are very welcome! So don't be shy to put something on.

No long AN for this one so I will see you all next time.