Chapter 1
The town had had been said to be cursed. It was a small town smack dab in the middle of Dakota. Several hundred years ago, a tale was told. How a race of demons would do battle there every hundred years since they arrived. One was a jet black and shined as if its body had been doused in liquid. It had a crescent shaped head with teeth that could tear through the sharpest object. It could scale walls and walk along the ceiling. Its boney looking tail swayed around even as it devoured its prey. Its blood could make metal bubble and turn into a heap of junk. The other demon stood seven feet tall. Its face made of metal. Its long dreadlocks decorated with rings. It had what looked like metal fishnet under armor that was said to deflect even the toughest bullet. It used a variety of weapons and disappeared and reappeared without warning. The year was 2004. It had been another hundred years since the two beings had first arrived. Daniel should've listened to the tales. For now he would have to face the horrors to save his town and his friends.
Above the Earth flew a craft. It was jet black and was never picked up the low class scanners that the humans had. Time and time again they had proved themselves to be worthy opponents, but humans weren't their target this time. This time they were hunting creatures that were the deadliest. Since the beginning of time, the beings upon the craft had bred them on the planet for game until the humans had appeared. The inside of the ship, its walls looked organic and glowed a deadly red. Inside were seven capsules that looked like human sized bullets. Out of nowhere cracks appeared. Steam hissed to show that oxygen was now being absorbed into the capsule. The newly made door slid open to reveal seven demons that had been foretold that would come. They stepped out making noises that would remind humans of a deep throated cat. Each one stepped out and made their way to a wall that glowed a bright green. One of the demons placed his hand next to it on the red wall. The green wall slid up revealing an array of weapons. Each demon already had a mechanized gauntlet that would unleash two long blades. Inside the wall were cylinders that could turn into spears, shoulder pads with small plasma cannons, gauntlets that shot a net that was razor sharp and grew tighter the more its prey struggled.
This was a traditional hunt so they took there net gauntlets and cylinders. The wall closed as they moved back into there capsules. The doors slid shut and the cracks turned to metal again. They then slid slowly down to a dock that would launch them. Seven pods were catapulted from the ship and headed towards Earth. The Predators were coming.
They could sense their mortal enemy. Hundreds of black shadows moved. One of them bigger than the rest. Instead of a crescent shaped head, it was large and flat. Here body seemed to swell as her egg sack began to give birth to several aliens. She felt great pride. This time would be different. Instead of seven aliens she had gave birth to a hundred. She roared and the Aliens roared along side her. It was a roar of triumph.
Daniel snapped awake. He was drenched in a cold sweat. That dream had scarred him to death. What were those creatures he had saw fighting? It was happening right in front of him. Either they didn't notice him or they had decided to ignore him. He shook his shaggy blonde hair that came downs to his eye brows. His gray eyes looked around the room. He was six feet and skinny. He was sixteen years old and was as carefree as you could get at that point in time. He wasn't all that strong either. The dream had felt so real. He shook off the feeling of dread he had. He turned and looked to his clock. The blinking red numbers told him the power had gone out at some point while he was asleep. He groggily got up. He wore nothing but his boxers. The clocks downstairs had gone out too. He sighed and moved upstairs to get dressed. He threw on a white t-shirt and some camouflage pants. He picked up his school bag and made his way downstairs to the kitchen.
Daniel was an only child. His parents worked the late shifts and were probably upstairs sleeping like logs. As he poured a bowl of cereal, the feeling he had shaken off came back. He held the bowl in one hand and stepped on the back porch. It was pretty early. The moon was still in the sky and the stars were shining brightly. He put the spoon to his mouth and took a bite of his cereal. Then he saw it. They came one after another until seven had passed by. They looked like shooting stars but moved to slowly. The feeling he already had doubled and sent a violent shiver up his spine. He dropped his bowl and spoon. It took him a second to realize what he had done.
"Dammit." He picked up the bowl and spoon and walked inside. Why was he being so jumpy today? It was unlike him to be so unnerved easily. The phone rang next to him and he picked it up not wanting to wake up his parents. That was the last thing he needed, to shouting parents.
"Dude, did your electricity go out too? I can't tell what time it is?" Daniel was relieved to here his friend Jordan's voice.
"Yeah. Wait, hold on, and let me get my watch." Daniel ran up every two steps to get to his room quicker. On the stand next to his bed was his watch. It was on top of his clock. Funny how he had never noticed it. He put it on his left wrist and looked at it. He then put the phone to his ear. "My watch says four-thirty."
"Good. That means we got a whole two and a half hours before we got to get to the bus stop."
"Is that all you wanted to ask?"
"Yeah, pretty much. Catch you later." Jordan hung up. Daniel pressed the off button and left his room. He went back downstairs. He looked out the window. The sight he had seen before had now disappeared from the night sky. On the horizon was the sun. That lightened Daniel's spirit just a tad bit. He turned and looked through his bag. He wanted to make sure he had all his school supplies. It was just a dream, he thought to himself. Daniel wasn't one to believe in monsters. Yet he believed in demons. Was that what he had seen? He smiled to himself. To think he was actually afraid. There was no known record of whatever was in his dream therefore it was just that. A dream.
"You know what?" he said to himself. "I need to get out more. First thing tonight I'm going to the mall with my friends, but for now I'm going to watch television." Daniel fell into the cushioning of the couch and turned on his TV. He turned the volume high enough for him to hear but low enough so his parents could sleep. He had a choice of cartoons or the news. He chose the news. After the first report he really wished he was watching cartoons.
"Seven mysterious capsules fell from the sky tonight. The first to discover the capsules was a farm milking his cows early in the morning. Tim Burdon is on the scene. What's it like down there Tim?" The screen switched to show a tall black man. He had a half shaven face and wore a trench coat. He had probably gotten there in a hurry.
"It is frantic down here at the moment. Officials are investigating the capsules. They have described them as large bullets. They believe it is hollow yet they cannot find any opening to see what's inside. We'll have more on the story later." Daniel shut off the TV. He had seen seven shooting stars in the sky before. Had they been the capsules. It was a possibility. Daniel had a really bad feeling about the capsules and what was inside them. Something told him that he didn't want to know what was in the capsules.
Later Daniel proceeded to the bus stop. The others were talking about the seven capsules and what they thought were inside. That's when he heard a familiar voice calling him from down the sidewalk.
"Hey Daniel." Jordan was running up the street. He was just a year under Daniel. His black hair was spiked and his black eyes were wide with excitement. He was just mere inches shorter than Daniel and had a bit more weight on him. Jordan ran long side Daniel and came to a halt. "Did you hear about the capsules that fell from the sky?"
"How could've I missed it? It's only on every news station and happens to be the talk of the town at the moment." Daniel could see the yellow bus coming up the street. That's when old man Rick came out of his house shouting. He was an elderly man with a church suit on.
"They have come," he shrieked. "They have come to kill us all. The two demons of destruction have been resurrected. Run, flea this place or you shall all die." Everyone laughed at old man. What he had just said sent a tingle up Daniel's spine. Daniel knew something was wrong. Old man Rick always stayed in his house and never came up for anything or anyone, yet today he was out in the rising sun screaming about demons. Maybe he had finally lost it. He had finally snapped and gone insane. Daniel grinned to himself. That was it, he had just gone insane. Without another thought, he got on the bus with Jordan.