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Subjected to the Shadows

Subjected to the Shadows

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It started in the town of Cerise, shadows have risen along with creatures who feed on human flesh... Survivors of all ages are either in hiding or fighting back. But how do you stop something when you don't understand why it is happening?

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Introduction

Fairmere County, where more towns than cities occupy it's lands. It's largest city being that of Roselin City, while the town of Cerise is where many families and those who yearn for the quiet and serene pick up residences. It starts in the town of Cerise, shadows begin to take on solid forms, that of either animals or humans. But the shadows are not the only things to fear, for along with them come winged imp-like demons who are of height and size of humans. Today the lives of those in Fairmere County change forever, but will they sit back and hide? Or will they take a stand and fight back?

But the bigger questions are: Why is this happening? Where did they come from? What do they want?

And so the day begins...
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She rolled over and he looked at her sleeping face, thinking to himself; 'I love her, she knows that... So why do we only see each other like this when it's been a rough day? Why don't we spend more time together? Maybe she doesn't love me? Oh God but how I love her... Please let her stay with me...'
He closes his eyes as he lightly drapes his arm over his lover's side and gently kisses her lips. As he drifts off to sleep, all he can think about is her and a lingering citrus perfume scent...
Morning comes and the two have breakfast together, but right after she heads back home to get ready for school, leaving him with the feeling of her lips against his. He swore everyone in the town of Cerise, knew about them and their odd relationship; the young man who held on to a dream that his young girlfriend would never give him. She would continue to hide from the truth and hurt him with lies, always leaving true love just two steps behind. Leaving him to take the leaps of fate, to try and change her mind and end the pain in his heart. But whenever he tries to take that leap, like every time before the last, she turns around and pushes him back.
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The school bell rang through the halls of Hartcrest Collegiate and the students filed in to their classrooms, leaving their hallways free and clear of any living being... But one student however was not there, instead he was at home, snuggled under his bed covers. Hiding himself from the world since his lover had left this morning, he had crawled back in to bed to try and sleep his depression away. The phone rang, insisting he answer the call which he did reluctantly.

“Hello?” He grumbled.
“What are you doing? Was she over again?” His cousin replied, matching her tone to his.
“Yeah she was ov--”
“Nevermind! I don't need to know. You should really get that shit sorted out though.” She said, cutting him off. “Anyways, you are late and you're in a lot of trouble. This is--”
“Yea I know... I KNOW!” He shouted at her through the phone. “I'm sorry for yelling... I'll be there in a few minutes.” With a sigh he hung up the phone and dropped it on to the bed beside him.

After quick shower, he gets dressed and grabs a muffin to eat on his way to school. Somehow he knew it was going to be a horrible day, only to be proven when he arrives at the school and seeing his lover standing by his parking spot. She seemed to have been waiting for him, again proven to him when he got out of his car and she shoves a piece of paper in his face.

“What is this?” He asks simply.
“Just read the damn note.” She states angrily.
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He looked up at his lover, not understanding what was going on. “I--”
“You nothing! Who the hell do you go blabbing to about our relationship huh?” She screamed at him. “I'm so pissed off, it's not even funny! You are nothing but a filthy jerk!” With that she smacked him and walked away, leaving him to stand by his open car door in disbelief. She stopped before walking in to the school to look back at him. “Just because I slept with other guys during breaks in our relationship, it still does not give you or anyone the right to talk about me behind my back!”

As she went inside, he slammed his car door, knowing full well that this will be all everyone is talking about. He mumbled all the way to the school and down the hallway towards his class, swearing that whoever caused all this is going to suffer some extreme ass kicking, when someone stepped in front of him.
The man in front of him was tall, at least seven feet, with the collar of his jet black trench coat turned up and black wide brimmed fedora, both angled to hide his face. The man's hands were tucked in to the pockets of his trench coat that almost reached the floor, the man's black dress shoes poked out from underneath the coat.

“Who the hell are you?” The teenage boy demanded.
The man grabbed the teenager's arm. “Come here...” The man's voice was deep and it sounded like it was made from the back of his throat.
“No way!” The teenage boy shouted, trying to pull his arm away. “Let me the fuck go!”

Knocking the hat off of the man's head, and something else from the man's face, with his free arm. A mask clattered to the floor and now the teenager stared up in horror at the thing in front of him... The man's head was nothing but a blackened shadow with no face, looking down at the man's hand, it looked just as a shadow on the wall would, black and transparent, yet this shadow man was as real and as solid as the teenage boy.

Come here now!” Demanded a disembodied voice.

The shadow man began to make a hissing noise, speaking in a language that sounded very similar to Latin. Scared and confused, just wanting to get away from whatever this man was, the teenage boy used all his strength and pulled his arm free from the shadow man's iron like grip. The teenage boy ran down the hall away from the shadow man, banging on classroom doors, and calling for help. He started trying to open the doors and finally the third door he tried opened.

There, in the now open doorway, stood the faceless shadow man. The teenage boy could only scream.
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He awoke to find himself on the school floor, still in front of the classroom where the shadow man had been standing, but now the door was closed. Did he imagine the whole thing? Maybe his depression was taking its toll on him. Maybe he should see a doctor and be put on some medication or an insane asylum. Either way something was wrong with him.

“But it was so real...” He whispered to himself, pushing himself to his feet and looking around. “Just to be safe...” He opened the door.

Nothing. Nothing but the empty desks of a classroom and moonlight shining in through the windows. 'Moonlight?' Now he was even more certain either something was wrong with him. Not sure what else to do, and unable to shake the feeling that something was horribly wrong, he ran to the parking lot doors and to his car. All the while casting glances around him, just in case that faceless shadow man was real and lurking around, waiting...
Without thinking, he yanked open his car door, climbed in, closed the door and locked it. Then he realized that he hadn't even locked the car door when he arrived at school. He had even forgot his keys in the car, they were still in the ignition.

“How did no one see me on the hallway floor?” He asked himself as he started his car.

On the drive back to his home, he noted how dark and empty the streets were. 'Anything could be out there...' He thought to himself. With a quick glance at the clock on the dashboard he saw it was only five o’clock. “What the? It's only five, why is it so dark? Why are the streets so empty?”
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Then from the corner of his eye, he swore he saw the faceless shadow man, standing in the doorway of the pawn shop, holding a body. A human body without its head. He drove faster, being pulled over by the cops for speeding was last on the list of his concerns.
He pulled in to the driveway leading up to his house, his cousin's car was parked ahead of his. Noticing the light's on his first reaction was that of a sigh of relief before the panic of telling anyone what he saw today crept in to his mind. He knew he wouldn't be able to remain calm, so he put the car in park, shut it down, pulled the key out of the ignition and got out of the car. He dropped the keys in to his jacket pocket and ran up to the door of the house. Throwing it open, turned around and slamming it closed behind him. Once he set the locks on the door he leaned his back against it and sagged to the floor with his eyes closed.
Suddenly he heard whispered voices around him, startled he opened his eyes wide to find his younger sister, cousin and four of his friends in the entry way, along with his dog and his one friend's cat.

“Brother!” His little sister cried as she ran to him and threw her arms around his neck. “I-I wa-was s-so s-scared!”
“Sweetheart, come with me to the living room okay? Your cousin needs to talk with your brother... Now that he is home.” Crystal said while she gently pulled his sister off of him and in to the other room.

Once his sister was out of hearing range, his cousin sat down in front of him. “We saw the car lights coming down the street and were relieved when it was your car with you behind the wheel.”

“Guessing by the way you were driving and the fact that you booked your ass up to the door, you saw something that scared the shit outta you.” His one friend, the one always said to be an asshole or badass, stated.
“Shut up!” His cousin hissed over her shoulder. She turned to stare down at her hands. “Anyways, uhm, this morning your ex, girlfriend, whatever she was, came in to class. She was pissed right the hell off, but that's not the point. Anyways, the teacher came in right after her and then this thing came in--”
“It was crazy! Something straight up from a horror movie! All hissing and clawing an--” Said the other male friend, he always seemed to be in to the supernatural and paranormal, often coming across as a nerd.
“Would you guys shut up!” His cousin shouted before covering her mouth. “This thing shoved the teacher out of the way--”
“His stomach was ripped open!” The nerdy friend exclaimed.
“And then grabbed your girlfriend--”
“Ex-girlfriend.” The rude friend corrected.
“It started to...” His cousin trailed off.

Everyone got quiet but then the rude, badass friend, who was leaning against the wall spoke up. “Oh just tell the poor son of bitch. Nevermind. I'll tell him.” He moved to stand behind the cousin. “The slut is dead. Whatever that large, ugly imp looking thing was gutted her and started eating her insides okay?”
Everyone stared at their friend in horror. “What? Don't baby the bastard. Jeez.”

“Everyone ran out of the class except for Crystal. I had to drag her out kicking and screaming...” His only female friend looked down at the floor. “She... She wanted to help your ex, since they were... Ya know friends and all.”
“Well shit guys, yeah this whole mess is sick but what are we gonna do?” The friend behind his cousin shouted.
“Shh! Keep it down damn it! His sister doesn't need to hear all this!” Hissed the female friend.

Gathering up his courage and all the strength he could muster, he pushed himself up from the floor. “Okay, everyone listen up. Right now we can't do shit all, so we're camping here tonight. We'll take turns keeping watch while the others get some sleep. In the morning we'll take all we can from here and see what the hell is going on around here. Hopefully we will be able to find help, but right now I'm not going back out there.”
“What about weapons asshole? Kitchen knives aren’t gonna save our asses against those things.”
He pulled the keys from his jacket pocket and held up one of them. “The key to my dad's gun case. Two rifles, a shotgun and two pistols. Extra ammo is in the case too.”

“Well then,” His cousin started as she got up from the floor herself. “For now I guess the question is...” She looked at everyone in the hallway and shrugged. “What's for dinner?”


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Shadow Man
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