Rachel slept in the hallway that night, food had gone missing each night for the past week. From nowhere she heard a crash. It sounded like it was coming from her room. She rushed in and saw a dark figure hovering over her bed. She turned on the light. There was no one there. She turned it back off and saw the shadow again. Rachel got scared. "Oh, Lord, please help me get through this night." The shadow disappeared. She woke up Aidan and Tara.

"Oh, it's probably just Sam or Melvin," Aidan reassured her.

"It was not your girlfriend and it was not the cat. It was a shadow, and it…it…vanished…..with nothing, nothing left behind, nothing, just…nothing. I, I know it sounds crazy, but it's true."

"Go back to sleep and if you hear anything again, we'll check it out together." Tara pushed Rachel back toward the hallway. Rachel fell back asleep but this time, there was no crash. A shadow of a girl, moving, moving so fast it was only a blur that could be seen, came to Rachel, knife in hand.

"You'd best not scream, if you do, it will be the end." The girl stood there, staring into Rachel with her cold, cold eyes.

"What do you want with me?"

"I want," she paused as she leaned in closer to Rachel, "your boy."

"What do you want with Aidan?"

"Just tell him," she paused again, "that Helenia would like to see him, he knows where to find me." Then she disappeared.

Rachel ran to Aidan's room. "Aidan! The shadow, it was a girl, she told me her name's Helenia. And, and she says you know where to find her."

He grabbed his coat and kissed his mother and sister good-bye and set off to find Helenia. Soon he ended up in a dark forest. "Helenia! You wanted me?"

"Yes, yes, I'm glad you've come." Helenia appeared behind him. "Your girl," Sam appeared in a chair all tied up.

"Sam!"

"Sam? Is that her name? Well she will die if you don't do what I ask, she said, her accent shining through very darkly. "You are to kill the most treacherous beast in the whole forest, the nine-tailed turkalamy."

"What the heck is a turkalamy?"

"It looks like a giant turkey with an extremely long neck, sharp teeth, and what looks like a cat-of-nine-tailsbut there's less pain, way less pain. Now go! Before I change my mind and give you something a little harder to find." Helenia laughed her evil laugh, which Aidan knew all too well.