Chapter two

"*Yawn* Huh what time is it?" I asked myself as I checked my phone, seeing that it was 4 AM I had thoughts of going back to bed, but seeing as I wasn't tired I decided to get a bottle of water from my bag. As I got down the stairs I saw that the lights were off, indicating I was the first awake.

'Creepy,' I thought, as I was in a new house in the dark, it just had an eerie vibe compared to when I was at home, well I guess this is my home now.

"Let's explore," with nothing better to do and no one awake, I decided to explore my new neighbourhood, 'because that'll definitely be less creepy than this house,' I thought, clearly being sarcastic, but now that I've made up my mind I guess I'm doing it. And so I put on a coat and went outside, looking around, deciding to take a stroll. As I walked I heard a scream originating from a girl, making assumptions in my head of the worst possible scenarios, I quickly ran in the direction of the scream without thinking twice.

As I ran as fast as I could I eventually reached the origin of the scream, a dark alleyway, one that makes you think of Batman. What I saw in the alley made my skin crawl and I froze in fear and shock. A man, pale and creepily skinny with, from what I can see, his whole face covered in burn marks. He stood looming over a girl in her twenties, whilst the man's age was unrecognisable, wearing a trench coat. But that wasn't even the worst part, no, a weird ghost-like being hovered behind the burnt man, looking like a shadow taking physical form and red, glowing eyes.

I rubbed my eyes to make sure I wasn't seeing things, then took a step back from shock when I kept seeing him.

*Crunch* 'Huh?' I looked down at my feet and saw that I stepped on a can, causing a pretty loud sound, definitely enough for them to hear.

He slowly turned his head, a creepy grin on his face and no teeth in his mouth adding to the unsettling atmosphere. As he turned to look at me so did the ghost-like creature with his glowing red eyes.

"Hehe, wanna watch? little boy! Hehe," The burnt guy said, with a disturbing giggle, reminding me of a creepy clown.

His words woke me up, now instead of scared I was furious. 'He thinks he can toy with me, and he's talking about raping her, isn't he? Argh! Who cares, there's no way I'm just gonna stand here and watch, I've got to do something even if I end up dying!'

With my mind now made up, I charged at him, fist cocked back ready to punch.

"Brave little one aren't we?" The burnt guy said in a joking tone, clearly not taking me seriously. "Get him Pookie!" He shouted out, pointing at me, and as he did the monster with red eyes floated at me, opening what seemed to be a mouth with pure red inside, just like its eyes.

As it flew closer and closer it grew in size, and so did its mouth, now large enough to swallow my whole body. My confidence is now completely gone, but I still decided to fight, giving up won't help. I punched at the approaching monster and the result was my fist went straight through it, as if it was just smoke.

Panic overwhelmed me and my life flashed before my eyes, the colour red filling my sight. This monsters mouth wide open and aiming at my head, intent on decapitating me it seems.

As thoughts of my family, of how powerless I truly am and of what will happen to this woman ran through my head, it was all too much, especially for a sixteen year old boy, and so my vision darkened.

As my eyesight cleared up, I didn't seem to be dead, and the monster that was about to eat me seemed to be gone. I looked around confused, and what I saw baffled me more. The guy, the one with all the burns, was looking at me with... Fear? Something that made no sense as he was just looking at me with contempt and disdain. How did he come to fear me?

And then I looked at the women laying on the floor, and she seemed to still be fearful, but now it seemed directed at something else. She was looking directly above me, and so I looked were she was looking at with such a fearful expression and I saw something terrifying looking, like when you look at a picture of the deepness and darkness of an ocean.

It was a floating orb of miasmic glob, like a portal to hell or something like that. When looking at it, I didn't feel fear or anything even close to that, no, I could feel a connection to it, something not on the physical plane but much much deeper. My mind now completely forgetting about everything happening around me, I reached my hand out to touch the orb and it made a sound as if humming in joy. When I looked at it again I couldn't see anything but a cute little ball. Like how owners of chihuahua's see their dogs, something many would find gross or annoying, they find absolutely adorable and cute.

"HOW DARE YOU EAT POOKIE!" the burnt man shouted at me while running in my direction, clearly growing a pair after seeing me completely ignore him.

Without even thinking, I instinctively moved the miasmic blob in front of me where the crazy guy was running at me. Not having time to react he ran straight into the blob of miasmic gloop. The result was that where the miasmic blob was aimed, which was his head, was cleanly devoured by my new blob. He fell straight to the ground, headless and blood pooring everywhere.

"*Blugh* haa *blugh*" I puked twice, realising I just killed a person, and the gorey way it happened didn't help.

"Aaaaahhhhh, HE'S DEAD! MURDERER!" The woman that was about to be raped screamed and shouted, running away after.

I looked up and realised I should run, seeing as there's a dead body on the ground and someone just shouted murderer. I quickly left the alleyway and ran home, trying to forget what just happened. The miasmic blob has already disappeared, it just vanished when I wanted it to, I definitely don't won't to accidentally kill someone with it.

I got home and opened the door, I finally realised my hands were shaking when I tried opening the door, something that took far longer than it normally would.

'I'm not sure right now, but I think I don't actually regret killing him. I mean he definitely deserved it, not just for trying to kill me but also for trying to rape someone, a crime deserving death. But even if he deserved it, that doesn't mean I was ready to do it. I just need some time to rest and come to terms with it, and ontop of that find out what this miasmic thing and that red eyed monster truly are. Today has only just started and it's already a long day hah.'

"London is just... Different *sigh*." I laid in bed and just thought about what happened, hours passed and I was still lying there in a half conscious state, thinking about nothing and doing nothing.