Spectral Claws: Ancient Recurring

Chapter 1: The Paradise Plaza

The books of ancient times belonging to the bygones of the past and heading towards artifacts of dust, abandoned and thrown away in the forgettable and decaying lands of Wolveian, currently a zone of human invasion and remembrance of their war. The books belonged to the family of mine who never was the type to leave nothing behind so all this and my life I regret living meant well. 

The paradise I once worshipped was deep within the access of the human rulers and I was just a pawn at their like any innocent spirit. All of this yet the unquenchable thirst to find the souls of secrets buried deep within the family possessions now lost in the dusted-away castle remains like another piece of important information ignored to the core. This was where I found the book that the father in my family had written. "A secret to attaining true nature by defeating the supernatural?..." was the title of the fading book, covered in ancient magic. It sparkled as I opened it, the pages were painted white, almost as bright as the moon in my window staring afar. The night after discovery there's always doubt as to whether any of this was useful.

It was the diary of my dad... 

I had the insight I yearned for all these years and it was in my hand, all I can do with this, hunt down the merciless and give true justice through searching all the ancient treasures. My history, my importance, and my duty were all shown in this book of his. This was a turning point in life and I ...I didn't take it. 

My hands trembled as I was still haunted by the fact that my dad and others left me as they always do. They are not people who give or take but those who just leave behind things as though they never really meant anything to them. This proved what he wrote and with all that knowing what they never did, putting all of those weight on me and I couldn't care less.

The residency of saviors had brought in one of their agents to my place. He was looking everywhere except at my door to see the name on it. I had let him search as I was inside with a brush in my mouth and walked to the room casually to put on my coat.

The time was 9 pm and the cases that took place according to intel must be just about 330 yards from here, all units must have searched the side from which they came. The only other side undiscovered or never had crossed the mind of the numb heads were the fifth colony and the third house, the one that was abandoned and said to wreak of werewolves and others.

So much has happened here since the renaming of the avenue to the Paradise Plaza. Murderers, weird money-grabbing druggists, psychedelic makers all had formed a team somewhere near to completely annihilate this place and take control.

The sharp light of the moon called on the windows reflecting back at the coat and I wear my hat as I wave my coat over me just to walk towards the door that the officer had opened. I almost bumped and sighed with his silly reflex, took him long enough to see the name on the door. He was wrinkled on his face and a bit hurriedly dressed up. The collar was very disturbed by the speed and the air through the open window in his car while he was driving. Cats' fur all over his shoe, two, well actually three cats and his daughter didn't like his beard today also along with his wife who agreed and nodded to the same.

All of this ran through my head, as he just handed the documents over to me. The papers were moved throughout the building of the ROS and it was taken to a train station. "Fancy the new chips brand from the 7 eleven near the station?" I asked as I was scrolling through unnecessary information in this file except one.

It said the scene had included someone noticing something huge with gnarly teeth biting on the dead. This was unusual for any case in this district though I understand now why they came to me.

"Ho-how did you know--" I distracted him by showing the file to his face where the info about the horrified man was stated; this happened while the cop was looking at himself and noticing he forgot something, "Oh um, I had the tape, I was sure it was with me when I came here."

The scene was suddenly heated up by the fact that one of his cops had turned to the other side, "It's one of your crew guys, who's the one that's missing let's find him."

His face showed a disappointment, a betrayal of true friendship for say a year."Oh god..Henry Aldoe.." A very suspicious name for a cop I thought as I got into the cop car and set a timer in my watch he looked at me confused and then started the car from the coordinates he just found where henry was. "I looked outside the window, the city was colored with boards and red paints stating supernatural exists and seize the government as the streets we avoided were filled with protests and unhappiness. Kids were on the road pushing wheels and some of the them looking up at the sky and at the streets of the rich which we just entered. "The watch set a timer for when the capture will precisely end by my calculations..and if we don't reach there and do the task as soon, its doomsday. You can stop looking at my watch then." I say still looking outside the window where suddenly the streets were so coloured and bright but with billboards that said free cream donuts day and balloons in the hands of the kids running and playing joyfully in their virtual headsets. "Some, city this is." I say as I anyway know what this all was.

We reached the crime scene and had got down, it was exactly the place it had thought it was. There was something strange about this case that just drives me to it though I was called by my friend cop and they had to hire me only by my agreeance so I walked inside as the police and others take screenshots."Death at this place?" I ask as the police sighed and nodded,"Yep...just another day of house robberies.." I smiled amusingly at him reassuring him,"Yes a robbery... but not of just what was inside which is way valuable than any jewelry but well also their lives and in a very horrible way."

I was a bit shocked as I entered the place to see the body with..claw marks and big chunk of blood dripping out of a neck that looked like it was well bitten off. I said everyone to be quiet and go outside...and I understood the killer was too , very close indeed.

My head hurt so bad as suddenly a piece of my past came to my eyes flashing a lot. My father leaving, vampires and demons following to them on shore while I was held...by Dracula.. I didn't know what this was as it went away quite quickly and I turned to the place which was invoking me to come to it.. the air whispered ,"Faudian...comee..." I felt a jewelry nearby through some kind of a sense that I newly find deep within myself.

I go nearer and nearer as the door on the side kept getting darker and the same whispers louder,"Come Faudian...come..." it said as I walked to it and looked at the other side. I closed my eyes as I was trying to focus on the jewelry but I was constantly being disturbed by this very bad odour..something that I was still familiar with. The blood...of a vampire. The voice was clear enough and deepened and distorted as I open my eyes suddenly a hand forced my mouth shut.

"Faudain ..how very good to see you...Now come, I shall take you his castle..the castle of the Count!" The growl that night was heard all over the city...and it was only getting worse at the city of paradise plaza.