This is the monster reaper thing I’ve been going on about - why are you guys letting me do this when I said I have important things to work on? A warning for light gore, and death (including animal death) and all those juicy things.
The door opened with a smash and closed with a slam. The man was soaking wet from head to toe, drenched in rain and sweat. He panted and puffed as he ran for the desk. His fingers soaked through the paper and envelope where he’d grabbed them, but there was no time to get another one.
His hands shook as he wrote – first the address on the envelope, and then his letter.
A dark haze began seeping through the door.
My son,
I hope this letter reaches you, though it may never leave this house. I am being chased, hunted by a monster. It might be hard to believe, but you must take my word.
It started in the afternoon, when I was sent out to investigate a murder in the forest. I was not alone – the hound was with me. He picked up the scent easily, and we soon arrived at the crime scene. What we saw there wasn’t a murder, but a massacre.
Rest assured, my child, that it was only one person who had been killed, though body parts were strewn across the place like the killer had gone to town. Blood splattered onto trees, fingers in the branches, intestines flung through shrubs and bushes. It took so much for me to not come straight home and spend the entire evening vomiting, but how I wish I had!
Before I could begin collecting evidence I caught a figure in the corner of my eye, but when I looked up it was gone. Thinking it was mere coincidence, I kept going about my civil duty. But when the hound started barking I knew something was wrong. I began searching for someone, but couldn’t find traces of anybody. I turned back only when the hound yelped out for help, and that’s when I saw it.
A figure garbed in a black cloak, with the face of an owl. I would have told him to go away, had he not been tearing apart the hound, and had the method been something inhuman.
A smoke came from beneath his cloak, along with dark tendrils which were piercing through the dog. It was horrific, but I couldn’t take my eyes away. The dog was torn into hundreds of tiny pieces, and suddenly the crime scene made sense.
And then it looked at me, son. Dead in the eyes. And I knew I had to run.
You need to heed my word, get out of this town. Move across the country. Out of the country. Get away, before it comes after you too.
Your fa
The haze surrounded him, began seeping into his body via his nose, mouth, anywhere it could reach. He began sputtering, and turned in time only to see the black-cloaked figure rise up behind him, tendrils advancing and wrapping around his neck and reaching all over his body.
A cry rang throughout the neighbourhood that night.
And the monster referred to only as the reaper knew its next target.