Day 1

"Do you expect us to believe all this?" Ray asked once Hilary had finally finished her explanation.

"I'm not telling you to believe it, only to hear it," she commented as she walked over to the TV and switched it on to the news.

"And I'm here live with a man who claims to have seen something supernatural that has taken one of his friends," a presenter said. She was standing by the side of a road and a man was standing next to her.

"It looked like a person, well that's what we thought it was from a distance," he told the woman. "But then it spread large wings and suddenly charged at us. The next thing I saw was the creature flying off with my friend."

"Thank you for that information," the woman told him. "And back to you in the studio."

"Well, from what you've heard there it sounds like history's repeating itself," the male presenter said who was in the studio. "This story may sound bizarre. But this has happened in the past. It hasn't happened for about twelve years though. But all of the cases believed to be a cause of this creature have all seemed strange. Not one body has been found with all its parts. Be it missing a tooth, its mouth, even a leg." Hilary then turned the TV back off.

"Well?" she asked. "It speaks for itself. Every twelve years it hunts for twelve days."

"It all sounds creepy but what are we supposed to do?" Tyson asked. "Wait for another twelve days?"

"But then people in twelve years time will say that, and then the people twelve years after that," she explained.

"OK then, how do you suggest we stop it?" Ray asked.

They all fell silent. "Let's just forget about it for now," Hilary said, breaking the silence. "We have no idea where it is now. Just, if you do go outside, stay alert."

"But why does it kill people, then take part of their body?" Max asked.

Hilary thought, thinking back to twelve years ago. "Whenever it gets injured it uses parts of other people," she explained. "That's why it's lived for so long." She checked the time. "Well, I better go. Bye." She then headed towards the door.

"Personally, I think it's a load rubbish," Tyson commented once she'd gone.

"You saw what it said on the news, Ty," Max reminded him.

"Oh come on," he protested. "Isn't this something out of a horror movie?"

Kai was leaning against the wall listening to Tyson. He wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't seen it. It was only just beginning to get light outside yet the moon was still clearly visible. His attention was distracted by something outside. It was a shadow against the moon. He knew what it was. Creeper. His wings were fully spread out and the moon seemed to make them glow, as his wings were slightly see-through.

"Tyson, would you call that something from a horror movie?" he asked as he stared at the shadow. The others walked towards him to see what he was looking at.

"So it is true," Tyson muttered as he walked away.

With Hilary

"Dad?" she asked as she entered the living room of her house. Her mother was dead because of Creeper. Her father was sitting on the sofa watching the numerous reports about Creeper. His head was bowed slightly. He raised it when he heard her.

"Creeper is back," he muttered. "After twelve years, he has returned to kill again."

"I know dad," she replied, sounding upset. "There is nothing we can do. We can't stop it."

"Do you think I raised you to give up!" he asked, sounding slightly angry. There was silence.

"No," she replied. "But you raised me to be smart, which is part of knowing I've been beat." She sat down on the chair to his right so she could see him properly.

"What's happened to your neck?" he asked.

"What?" she asked, confused.

"You've got a cut on the side of your neck," he told her. She put her hand on her neck and looked at her hand. She did have blood there. "Oh. Well, I tried to get the blade destroyed before Creeper would come out again, but I was too late. I'm fine." She then went upstairs to clean it off.

Once she had finished cleaning herself off she glanced into the mirror above the sink. She saw Creeper's reflection behind her own. She quickly turned round. Nothing was there. She looked back in the mirror and his reflection wasn't there. She shook her head violently.

'I'm seeing things,' she thought. 'How could he get in here?'

She then went into her bedroom, pondering what to do.

After several minutes there was a scream from outside. She quickly ran to her window and looked outside into the alleyway. She just saw the body of a man lying there. Creeper was running off quickly. It was now daylight. She knew she had to go to school today. Having a winged creature running around killing people is hardly an excuse to take a day off school, well, twelve days. She sighed and got ready.

"Dad," she began. He was still staring at the TV. "I'm going to school." He stood up and walked towards a cupboard in that room. He pulled out a shoebox from the bottom of it and opened it. Inside was a gun, wrapped in cloth. He handed it to her.

"You'll need this," he told her, putting the box away and continuing to watch the news.

Hilary just shrugged, put the gun away, and walked to school.

At School

She'd managed to get there without any trouble but several people weren't in, even more than usual. She glanced around at the empty seats and gulped, she was lucky. For the whole day she glanced outside the window every five minutes. She didn't even do any of the work. How could she? The teacher didn't even seem to realise a crisis was going on. There was suddenly a gunshot from outside and everyone jumped and ran towards the window to see what was going on. All they saw was a creature dressed in black that had large wings flying off away from them, holding someone with its claws. Hilary shivered. Something worse was going to happen, and she could feel it.

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