The Night World {RP}

[spirit_queen]

Emily went home with Mia and was delighted to find that no one else was home. She helped Mia with her homework and sent the tired girl off to bed, then started on her own.

She would be alone like that until quite late, when the sun had long been swallowed by the horizon and the world was drenched in darkness; not even the light of the moon permeated the night, as it was a new moon.

[Miranda_]

Dolph, Lupe and their mother Velvela were preparing to hunt. When the three 'wolves hunted together, they could pull down bigger prey, like deer. All three 'wolves changed to their wolf forms, which were black with tawny markings. They went off into the forest.

[spirit_queen]

It was nearing midnight when Emily's father stumbled in, drunk off his ar.se. Emily had just finished her 7 page English paper when he came up to her.

"Y'wer gun'll eeevnin, grl," he slurred. Emily's father was a tall burly man, whose face had recently gotten covered in a short beard. At the moment, he made Emily gag with the stench of alcohol, and his eyes were so bloodshot they seemed almost pink from a short distance.

"S-so, I met someone," Emily said, fear and defiance warring it out within her.

"Yer a wrthlzz WH.RE! Gowin out wiff dese guys-" he said before lunging and grabbing her by her slim neck.

Emily's father was an angry drunk, and the slightest thing could push him toward violence... unfortunately, Emily's dating habits triggered him often an easily, and the abuse that resulted form his anger made Emily seek out release from others even more, creating a vicious cycle.

Emily kicked and struggled, her eyes bulging; would he finally kill her? Was this how her life would end, in her cruddy living room that reeked faintly of bile after finishing her homework?

Just as Emily began to see dark spots in her vision, one of her desperate kicks got lucky; she hit his family jewels, and he went down. She took a few minutes to gasp, he face fading from red to purple, but then she ran for Mia's room even while still coughing and gasping. She didn't hesitate as she shook her sister awake.

"Wha...? Emmy?" Mia said, groggy.

Emily coughed. "We-" she coughed again, "-have to go. Dad is-" hack, "really mad tonight."

Just then, an enraged, incoherent scream came from the living room. Mia froze, and Emily just grabbed her sister. Mia's tiny room was on the first floor, so Emily simply threw open the window and climbed out with her sister.

But where to go? Wait! The forest! No one ever goes there because of that stupid old legend, she thought, changing her direction to match her thoughts. Mia clung to her older sister and shivered the whole way.

Emily paused at the forest's edge, looked around nervously, then went in as silently as humanly possible.

[Miranda_]

Dolph waited outside a clearing in the forest. Lupe and Velvela were stalking a deer; they would herd it towards the clearing so that Dolph could make the kill. All the werewolves were in what they considered to be their natural forms; that of wolves. They felt, thought and acted as such, with not a trace of humanity in their make up.

The night was dark, with only the stars to give light as the moon was new. Dolph scented the air and tensed in readiness as a crashing in the forest signalled that his mother, sister and their quarry was coming near to the clearing. As the deer burst out of the undergrowth, Dolph leapt for the deer, bringing it down to the ground with his weight. He bit deep into the back of its neck, with Lupe biting into its stomach and Velvela biting the deer's throat. It screamed, very much like a human girl, and soon died.

[spirit_queen]

It was a good thing it screamed like a human girl, as it covered Mia's very human girlish scream before Emily could clamp her hand over Mia's mouth. Emily's favorite animal was the wolf, and, consequently, she knew plenty about them. Hunting in this fashion was normal enough, she thought to herself even as her body filled with adrenaline and told her to run, run run!

But those wolves were far too large to be ordinary... Demon dogs? But they're just a stupid story... Her mind was far too panic-filled to wrap around the idea that these things were far to substancial to be ghosts or demons; all she knew was that since these weren't normal wolves, the typical rule wherein wolves don't attack humans might not apply.

That meant Emily and Mia's chance of surviving the night relied on them remaining hidden. Unless they smell us...

[Miranda_]

It was lucky for the girls that the 'wolves were too busy with their kill to bother about sniffing out humans. The 'wolves fed from the belly of the deer first, sharing out the organs that they had to eat every day, much in the same way that vampires had to have daily blood.

[spirit_queen]

Mia trembled and burried her head in Emily's shoulder while Emily stared on in fascinated horror, feeling sick to her stomach; it was one thing to watch a documentary, another to see it in person.

[Miranda_]

Having finished their meal, the 'wolves left the area together, heading thru the forest in the opposite direction to the trailer park.

[spirit_queen]

Emily didn't register where the went, just that way went. She waited until they were out of sight, then stood on shaky legs with Mia and left the forest as quietly as she could... which, considering her shaky legs, wasn't that quiet at all.

[Miranda_]

It would have been most unwise to try and follow the 'wolves; no longer distracted by hunting and feeding, they would have smelt the humans and discovered them. The 'wolves took a roundabout route back to the trailer park out of caution; there was no point in leaving anything to chance.