Five days later

In a building in the human town occupied by The Hunt, a soldier could be seen sitting on a chair and looking at the camera. The soldier turned the camera on and began to speak.

"It has already been five days since we were told by the higher-ups that H-00 was seen nearby. We have all been on our toes and are checking every corner to make sure that H-00 wasn't there. Many think this won't work and I don't blame them since recently we lost three men who were on guard duty just a day later after we were told."

The soldier could be seen shivering, not because he was cold or sick, but because he was afraid.

"When we found their corpses, we couldn't tell who they belonged to since their faces were mangled up and they had big holes all around their body as if something burst out of them. This wasn't the only corpse we found that ended up like this. Just today an entire building holding twenty men was killed the same way. The thing is, on these corpses we found parts of their legs deeply cut. I don't know the name of this part, but it was a part of the heel that allowed one to run or walk. Every one of them had the same cuts on the part of the heel."

The soldier then pulled out a disk from his pockets.

"I am in charge of the security system for this town and every time I check the cameras for any hints on what did this to the poor guys, I come up empty. My main theory on this is that they are somehow able to turn themselves invisible and I don't mean camouflage with their surroundings or stuff like that. No, I mean turn themselves completely invisible, as if the light is completely going through them or bouncing off them. Either way, these creatures can turn completely invisible."

"Some people have decided to quit the operation and return to their ordinary lives and I don't blame them. We are being killed most horrifically and most likely the most painful way. I am also thinking about quitting and heading back to my old life. Although it was hard to survive on the streets, it is better to know that I am safe there than here."

The soldier then leaned forward ready to turn off the camera but stopped when he heard a voice.

"Help me!"

It was faint but he could hear what the words were. "Who's there," the soldier said as he pulled out his pistol from his holster.

"Help me!" "Please Help!" "Somebody Help me!" "I don't want to die!" "Kill me!" "Help Us!"

The words started faintly but soon grew louder and louder the more sentences were said. The soldier at this point was scared as he pointed his gun at the nearby walls. "Is this a prank and if so it's not funny" the soldier said as he kept pointing his gun at the nearby wall.

Soon the cries for Help grew louder and louder. The more they grew louder the more it sounded close to him as if people were standing next to him. The cries were deafening that the soldier felt like he was losing his mind.

"Aaah" the soldier yelled and soon shot several bullets out, all hitting the nearby walls. The soldier began to take deep breaths as he felt sweat coming down his back and face.

The cries for Help were gone and the only noise that was being made in the room was the soldier taking deep breaths.

The soldier flinched when he felt something cold grab his shoulder. The soldier slowly looked down and could see a long pale hand and finger grabbing his shoulder. He could see the long sharp nails on the pale fingers clacking against one another.

In the corner of the soldier's eye, they could see a black object going past their head. The soldier slowly turned their head towards it and could slowly make out what it was.

"A blackbird beak," the soldier thought and he could soon see the head of the birds beak. It could see three eyes that had slit pupils. One red, one brown, and one white.

Soon the beak slowly opened and a voice came through, it was faint but the soldier could hear it.

"Help Me!"

Soon the creature lunged its open beak at the soldier's head and began to tear at it. The soldier still alive and in pain tried to reach for his gun that was knocked out of his hand when the creature lunged at him. But when he was about to grab it another pale long hand appeared out of the shadows and grabbed it.

The soldier couldn't process what had happened when a large axe head slammed itself on the soldier's hand.

"Aaah" the soldier screamed as the creature that was mauling his head got up from him and walked to a nearby wall.

Not thinking much and going by instinct, the soldier quickly got up and ran for the door. He ran to the door and before he could open it up he felt a sharp severing pain in his heels and the side of his legs. The soldier then fell onto the floor and was dragged back to the center of the room.

The soldier's mind cleared up for an instant and made him remember something. He remembered the marks on his comrade's dead bodies how they had cuts on their heels, how their faces were mauled to the point where they couldn't be recognized, and how they had so many cuts and holes on the sides, back, and stomachs.

All these images came to his head and he soon realized what his fate will be.

"Someone, please help me!" he yelled out as he clawed at the floor with his only remaining hand. "Someone help me!" he yelled out once more.

"Someone, please help me!" The soldier heard his voice even though he didn't say anything. He turned his head and looked at the Holo that was standing behind him. It opened its mouth and his voice came out "Someone help me!"

He didn't know why, but he felt like the Holo were enjoying his torment and fear. "Please no" the soldier faintly said as he curled up in a ball.

"Please no."

He could hear four voices say what he just said in union and soon three more Holo came out of the darkness and stared at him. They all looked the same as the one who was tormenting him.

All four slowly walked towards the soldier and began making clicking noises with their fingers and beaks.

The soldier looked at the floor and closed his eyes "s-someone help me."

***

"This is the tenth one today" a soldier said as he stared at a corpse that had slash marks on its back and holes all over its body.

"Yeah, it seems that whatever did this loves to do it in the dark," another soldier said as he walked to a wall and put his hand on an open hole.

"He tried to fight back but failed," the soldier said as he took his hand off the hole and walked to a nearby table.

"Do you think it's H-00?" the first soldier asked.

"Probably, but we can't be too sure," the soldier said as he grabbed a camera off the table. He opened the camera and began to pay for the last recorded video.

A couple of minutes passed.

"Although it was hard to survive on the streets, it is better to know that I am safe there than here."

Soon the video showed the soldier leaning forward and the video ends.

"Poor man, he was planning on leaving as well," the soldier said as he placed the camera back onto the table.

"Is that everything in the room?" The soldier asked as he looked at his comrade.

"Yes, other than the camera and the corpse. Everything else seems normal and not out of place" the soldier said.

The both of them soon walked out of the room and began to head to the next house that had another dead soldier in it.

***

In the corner of the room, two pairs of white eyes could be seen staring at the two leaving men. The eyes soon turned towards the mangled corpse and soon the camera.

"S-someone help me" a voice came out of the area in which the white eye was at. Soon three more voices came out of the different corners all saying the same thing "s-someone help me."

A soldier soon entered the room and began to look around the room.

"I thought I heard something?" the soldier said before he left the room. He closed the door behind him.

Soon a voice was heard inside the room "I thought I heard something?"

"I thought I heard something?"

Soon devilish laughter and giggles could be heard emanating from the room. There could be noises of clacking and clicking.

Hours later in the middle of the night. The door to the room that the four Holos were in slowly opened and four pale figures slowly left. One of them began to make clacking noises and soon a smaller version of them left the room.

Then the doors to the other rooms began to slowly open and soon more and more of these creatures began to slowly come out, whether they are big or small.

Soon out of one of the rooms a creature that was taller than all of them came out holding two dead soldiers in its hand.

"Father will be proud of us," the big Holo said as tendrils came out of the palm of its hand and pierced the necks of the dead men. Once it was done, it dropped the dead men on the ground and soon turned invisible.

The rest of the Holos soon followed its action and turned invisible as well.

***

The last door of the building soon opened and a soldier as ring PJs came walking out yawning.

"Man, I need to get some milk," the soldier said as she walked down the hallway. She stopped walking when she felt something wet on her feet.

She looked down for a second before her eyes went wide and she fell on her butt. She could see two dead bodies with their head was blown off and laying on the floor.

She scrambled for her radio in her pocket and reported the incident. When she finished talking, she heard a voice.

"Man, I need to get some milk."

A shrill cry soon enveloped the entire building before the entire building finally went silent.

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