Terror was all over his face as he ran for it in the alley a few lanes away from his house…he was almost home but yet was very far from it….the night breeze brought with it a chill and silence which he was afraid of….like a blind man in a hurry he kept bumping into objects small and large as he made his way home….He was focusing his thoughts totally on getting home without much time to spare….
As he was running he remembered about a shortcut which he used to take when he was a kid….Although he hasn’t been living in this neighbourhood for a good part of the last decade, he was very much aware of the place how it was before….before darkness had covered the town completely…
When he had left the town, it was a very peaceful locality…dominated by middle class workers who worked on the day and enjoyed like anything during the weekend….He loved the town but when his dad for some reasons left it he had to give up on his dream….a dream to make the town he so much love, where he was born and brought up to be so self competent that even the middle class people would live like rich millionaires….But when he returned after his dad imposed exile he now thought that he shouldn’t have returned….
Smash!!!! The jump went too deep and he fell on a glasshouse roof top crash landing on top of a bed of lilies thru the glass…..He was cut all over the place…but he couldn’t stop..he didn’t have time to nurse his injuries…he had to run he had to go quickly into his house…grab his gun and some bare essentials and get out of the town as soon as possible…the scene that he witnessed was something that he could die for sure….
He ran thru the glasshouse into the open and came up to a fork in his path….”When did this happen? There was no fork at this end of the shortcut!” he thought as his mind and heartbeat were racing…The sudden noise in the distance caught his ears…the chilling breeze now was making a lot of noise…something which he was not at all comfortable with….He took a chance…he choose the path on his right as that was the direction his house was located….scampering thru the rubble he made his way out when he heard another fearful noise..The swish of a bird…a bird so big that one whip of his wing caused a gush of wind to blow towards him…hitting the back of his head, he felt the chill…..There was no escape…there was no chance in hell he had…his was the date which would be etched on his tombstone….if he ever got one…
Running thru the chosen path he landed up at a dead end!!! He was petrified!!! The wall was too high and there was no time for him to use his mountain climbing skills….he searched for a ladder in that alley..but luck is never so convenient….There was nothing but a dumpster by the way….He thought of taking a chance…He got on top of the dumpster and pushed off as if he wanted to fly!!..But to no avail…he hit the wall with his hands barely reaching the top and fell right back where he started….And then he saw it!
The big bird flew down from the sky…its eyes menacing..its flight elegant….It had marked its target in the alley….he flew down and aimed itself straight at him…then something happened…as the bird was close to the group, it transformed….and then finally it landed on him…..And when it was all said and done, all was left was a dead body with 2 holes in its neck..the vampire had done its job to perfection!
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