Chapter 1 - Nightmares

"Every night I wake up dripping with sweat. Always from the same dream. I see his eyes gazing at me, and then the ground turns from solid into a thick red liquid. I know it's blood, I just don't know whose it is….." Tausha ran her fingers through her hair. "I've had the same nightmare ever since that night, 15 years ago."

"And what happened 15 years ago that would make you have such creepy dreams?" Jenna bluntly asked.

"Me and my parents were getting ready for bed, I was only 5, and we had just had our movie night." Tausha looked at the floor, then continued to explain. " I ran to my room to get my favorite blanket, and when I got back to my parents room I saw the most horrifying sight." She took a deep breath trying to calm the trembling in her voice, and stop any tears that might try to fall. "My parents had been murdered by two dark creatures. They were huge and black, and had these banana shaped heads. They had sharp teeth, and a snake like inner mouth that they could retract with even more sharp teeth, and they had long spear tipped tails." She paused again and pictured the rest of her story. " My mom was still on the bed as one of those creatures stuck its inner mouth into her head, splattering her brains all over the wall. My dad was already dead, his body was lying on the floor, his blood soaking into the carpet.

"The minute I had entered the room the creature that had killed my father leaped at me, it didn't have eyes but somehow it sensed I was there. I was so sad and scared that I couldn't move, I was frozen in place, so sure I was going to die." Tausha looked back up into Jenna's eyes.

"But just before the creature was right on top of me a blue light cut through the room and into its head. Acid like blood splattered all over the room, but amazingly none of it landed on me. By the time I was able to look at my hero he had shot another blue blast into the creature that had killed my mother." A smile appeared across Tausha's face.

"He was huge, he wore this black fishnet looking mesh all over his body, and silver armor, he was really muscular too. He had black long hair that looked like it was in dread locks with gold ring looking beads in it. He also wore a metallic mask so I wasn't able to see his face, but those eyes, I could feel them looking straight through me, I'll never forget them."

Jenna looked at her with an evil looking smirk, but Tausha continued.

"He stood there and looked at me for a minute, then tilted his head to one side like he was surprised that I wasn't running away. All I could do was smile, and for some reason I still couldn't move. My hero walked over and knelt beside me, he touched my cheek very gently as if to tell me everything was alright.

"Within seconds my arms were wrapped around his neck and I was hugging him. He ended up carrying me to my room and tucking me into my bed. He stood there and watched me until I fell asleep. When I woke up the next morning he was gone."

Jenna asked another question without thinking. "So what happened to all the bodies?"

"I don't know, they were all gone when I woke up. All that was left was blood and chunks of alien brain."

"Eww nasty, that's tough, you must have had a really hard time growing up."

"Not really, ever since that night I've always felt like he's watching me, protecting me."

Jenna almost choked on the Coke she was drinking. "He!"

"Yeah, the one that saved me." There was pure confidence in Tausha's voice. "Well I've gotta go. If I'm late again my boss is gunna kill me." She stood up and placed three dollars on the table to help pay for Jenna's Coke.

Jenna quickly got in a last question. "Hey? What do you do anyways?"

Tausha's mind went completely blank. "I……uh……I'm…… I'm a nurse. See ya later!" She moved out of the diner more quickly to avoid anymore questions.

'That was too close, I've got to watch what I say.' Tausha wasn't a nurse, she was an alien hunter for Angel City. Most of the people that lived there didn't even know the bugs existed. Those that did know of them were either dead, or worked with her. Tausha Monroe was an average women, she was about 5'6" and had long, dark, wavy hair. She was always nice to everyone, but she really enjoyed her job, killing the demons that killed her parents was a great way to blow off any steam, not to mention it was really good exercise.

End of chapter 1

By Tausha Monroe - dahdtoudi