.……………………......-~=Prologue=~…………………………….
Steven, 7:00 PM, Oakatami River Surface
The line of people started to cross the Oakatami River. They stopped when they were all across, and more people started to bind their hand behind their back. They backed away slowly. My sister sobbed as our mother was forced to say Oakatami, and was swallowed up by the surface of the river. I rubbed Lauren’s hair as her hand clutched mine. The next line of people walked on top of the river surface, repeating the word Oakatami, then slipped through the river and into the human world.
Hayden, 7:00, Ashley River
I clutched my hands against the fence that blocked out people from the Ashley River. I watched as the “Creatures” burst through the water, and then started to drown. I ran away from the fence as another batch burst through the water. Whatever lived down there, or wherever, no one knows what they were. So everyone called them the creatures. But if I knew what was going to happen later on in my life, I never would of disrespected them, or despised them.
-~=Chapter One=~-
Hayden, 2:00 AM, living room, my house
First of all, let me tell you about the Creatures. They were humanoid, but they could morph their hands into claws, they usually had dark, tan skin, and sometimes, they have a flap of skin that stretches all the down to their wrist, then stretched out to their side, like a flying squirrel. But we only see them when they burst through the water of the Ashley River, before they drown. Only one was saved, but she was never seen again. Some say she was a child who knew how to swim with her legs tied and arms bonded, and that’s how she escaped, or she just stood calm and let the water push her up against the banks, where she could get some help getting un-bonded. But now no one knows where she lives, or if she died, or was killed. But someday, maybe someone, or maybe even I, will find out the truth. That all changed one day when a creature burst through the water, looking for her. |