You left the house shortly after you found your father's gun. You followed through with your plan to go look for the so-called "Cryptid" your town had gotten adjusted to. You felt bad about lying through your teeth to your mother about what you were really doing, but you had other things to worry about now.
It was hard at first, trying to find out where it could be. Asking around town, most people were apathetic to it and brushed you off, or worse were annoyed and wanted nothing to do with you and your questions. Some were more than happy to blabber about it, but gave no more on its whereabouts than they did gushing about how much research they'd been doing; So practically, nothing helped.
At least you had Shine by your side. Your mother was willing to let you take her with you on your interrogations so to speak, but only if she could handle a leash.
..She wasn't looking happy about it, but unlike some cats she was surprisingly content with it after the first few minutes of struggling. You wondered why that was, why she had always been so calm despite not understanding on the same level as you.
You wondered about the people who answered your questions on that weird blog.
No. Not right now. You have to find it. You don't know WHAT it could possibly be doing out here if it came from Newt County, and the lack yet abundance of coverage for such an unsightly thing concerns you. Have people just. Been letting this thing lurk Waterside without doing a damn thing? You'd expect this from fucking pigs, but even your mother had brushed it aside when you let it slip.
And your mother was always worried about unfamiliar animals around town. Once she'd almost had a heart attack seeing a raccoon standing outside your porch, and all it had been doing was eaten something you'd forgotten to take with you inside.
So either there was something in the water, or people had found themselves content to let a silent monster lurk around every corner.
You think you needed a moment.
You went back out to look again when you saw someone come by screaming; And to your surprise, it wasn't about the cryptid.
"DON'T GO THAT WAY! DON'T THEY - IT - OH G O D !!!"
You had been startled, if not annoyed by the sudden yelling and appearance. But Shine?
She was quivering, fur standing on end as she stared in the direction that the stranger came from.
Nothing looked wrong, save for a bit of fog in the distance.
"it'll be ok" you tried reassuring her.
Even then, she urged you to go that way by tugging on the leash, and without much choice, you complied.
You stopped just a few feet away from the fog when you heard the noise. It came from an alleyway just to your left, a groaning of some poor dying animal.
..And yet it sounded nothing like an animal at all.
Despite your own unease, as shared with your beloved cat, you stepped forward into the dark anyways.
...And without knowing it, the fog inched ever closer.
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