At the stroke of midnight the creatures began to become solid, their gaunt shapes becoming fat. They sprung out of the darkness all at once. There was pain. He could see them flashing around him, teeth and claws flailing around until he didn't even try to keep track of which belonged to which. He just bite and clawed frantically, trying to catch something in his panic. He suddenly felt drenched, for a moment he thought that he had just been sweating, that was normal for his human form, but soon her realized that that wasn't possible.

His fur wasn't drenched in sweat, it was drenched in blood.

His mind began to spin as another assailant latched onto his throat. He howled in agony. He reached up to it, trying to pry the jaws off of him, but it wouldn't let go. He pulled against the face, his fingers clawing for its eyes. The eyeball slid away, but he could feel his claws were firmly in the socket. The creature whinned and sputtered in protest, twisting his head back and forth to get away, but still it would let go. Another beast was clawing at his back, he turned around, throwing it off. He could feel his flesh being incised by the vain attacks that surrounded him. He lifted the one of his neck by the eyes, and threw his body into a tree. He put the tree at his back, ceasing the nipping from that direction. He moaned, clawing at them ineffectually.

"Leave it!"

The voice called out clearly through the night. The dogs immeadiately ceased, but their annoyance was paltable. Nick's eyes rolled up, half out of exhaustion, half to thank God.

"This is private property," the voice said cooly, "Leave before I inform the Lady of the house."

The creatures hissed and spat at the stranger, but they quickly kicked off, disaparating back into the darkness. The figure approached him slowly. He was dressed strangely, as though he had come out of the nineteenth century, but he looked young, about the same age he was. His senses told him that the boy was not supernatural.

"You are supposed to be here either," he commented smiling, "Shall we heal you up?"

The other place his hand on Nick's forehead, it was cool... human, but he could feel a flicker of supernatural energy light up deep inside of him. In a moment, the energy overwhelmed him. It made him feel warm and safe. The wounds on his body cleared, scarless, as though he had never been attacked. One would, however, did not heal so easily. The bite on his neck. It started to close slowly, but an intense pain began to build inside of him.

"unnh-ah!," he whimpered, flinching slightly.

"Shhh," soothed the other, his hand gripping Nick's wrist, "You have to trust me."

The pain grew, as though every bone his body were vibrating, then his flesh felt like it was burning. He reached hastily to claw at the other's hand, realizing that somehow he'd been forced back into his human form. He thrashed back and forth, trying to wriggle away from it. He could see the other's eyes, calm and focused, a cruel irony in his now blinding pain.

"Just try to stay still," the other soothed. The hand on his head slid down to his cheek, the other on his wrist coming up to join it, "This is going to hurt a lot."

He tried to move out of the other's hands, but suddenly he felt completely ridgid and his body no longer seemed to be under his control. A white hot flame seemed to sear his insides in a pain so great that he could not longer comprehend it. He screamed, unsure in anyone could hear it, unsure is he was in his own body anymore. The next thing he knew, he noticed his neck was very wet. The other seemed to be panting, sweat dewing at his brow. He looked up at him, smiling gently.

"Here. For the poison." he handed him a hankerchef and stood up ubruptly.

Nick put it to his neck and wiped it away. What he wiped away was thick and black, like tar, but cool like the insides of an artifical ice pack. He threw it away in disgust. Suddenly, it occured to him what had happened. He lept to his feet, intent on thanking his rescuer, "Hey wait! Come back!" But he had barely taken two steps before he fell back to the ground.

"You're going to feel like that for a while," the young man replied, "If you are going to walk, I would walk twenty feet that way," he pointed, "Then you will be off of our property. They are very strick about that. There is no spirit energy around here for miles, that's how you can tell."

"Wait, what were those things?"

"Don't ask me. He isn't my responsibility. Neither are you now that you're well," he turned around, walking backwards, "As soon as you can, get out of here. I'm serious. There are greater powers in these woods than me and they aren't so fond of your kind."

Nick staggered to a stand and leaned against a tree, "but wait! Who are you? Why did you help me?"

The other stopped and smirked, "I guess, tonight, I'm your guardian angel."

Without another word, the boy turned around and disappeared into the darkness.

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So Nick made it out alive, but who were the creatures in the darkness? Why did they attack him? and who was the mysterious young man who came to his rescue? Curious? Tune in tommorow for the next installment.

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