• Shadow hollow The Raven high saga: walkers of the Night

    Chapter 1: My birthday takes a turn for the worst

    Everybody does it! I mean don’t you? Of course you do!! Don’t try to lie everybody makes mistakes once in a while but I’ve made the biggest mistake of my life! My name is Jake silver and I was about to die. You probably think I’m a lunatic or something but I should probably explain from the top. I woke up really happy as it was my 13 birthday. I dashed down the stairs and into the kitchen when I was suddenly greeted by an alluring smell. Blueberry pancakes! The most delicious, mouth watering food on the planet. I automatically sped to the nearest unoccupied chair at the table and began stuffing my face. Suddenly my little sister Liz came rushing down the stairs with a come in her right hand and a tooth brush in her left. Suddenly she saw what all the commotion was and started bawling like a normal 8 year old would have “Mom!!!!!! That’s his 5th helping!!!!!” Well I just can’t ‘help’ myself I replied chuckling between gulps of the syrup oozing fluffy treat. “Let him be” my mom answered. “It’s his birthday” Liz stormed of muttering something about stupid birthdays and how she can’t wait for hers so she could do whatever she wanted. Just then I thought I saw steam coming out from her ears. At school I couldn’t sit still.
    Not because I was exited but because I was itching like hell!!! I’d been like this for the last week itching and scratching. My friends Al and Gordon were getting freaked out. “What’s wrong wid you” asked Gordon at lunch. I didn’t answer because to be honest I didn’t have the slightest clue. In PE something really strange happened. I’m not unfit but I usually stank at sports but I kept having these bursts of energy and I became about 10 times as strong and 10 times as athletic. In basketball I jumped higher than a professional basket ball player and did a back flip slam dunk. I hung there on the rim as the class gapped at me in awe. I decided to let it slide in till my birthday was over.
    I rushed home quickly for my party not because of the presents or cake because my dad said he was finally coming home! My dad was the sort of person who’s never at home and always at work. He had side burns and was really hairy some would say he was a werewolf but when I say that to mum she frowns and doesn’t respond. I wonder why she does that? So any way when I got home I opened the door. The House was empty. Maybe it’s a surprise party I thought. No it couldn’t have been I knew about the party. I checked the Garden. Empty suddenly I heard screaming and howling outside and someone crashed through the door. The screaming was still going on but one voce oppressed the rest. My Dad’s. The person who smashed through the door was my Dad!!!!! “RUN JAKE RUN” he howled as he did battle with some strange things that I couldn’t see from where I was. Suddenly what seemed like shadows attacked him and totally unexpected happened. 5 people smashed through the window and grabbed me. “We’ll take you to safety kid” one said. It’s time for the mistake I made. It was so stupid It was thing that started my living hell. A thing I’ve regretted for a long time I kicked the man who grabbed me and ran like there was no tomorrow......But what I didn’t relies was that my family had just been kidnapped and I was being pursued by things that looked like demon foxes from hell.