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I remember the first day I saw it like it was yesterday.

It was a dark night and my sister and I were playing Yahtzee with her friend Mandie. Our mother had gone out for the night on a date, having finally recovered from a messy divorce. We had all more or less settled into our new life, so in hindsight, it wasn't the worst time for something like that.

Mandie went out to the back porch. My sister and I heard her scream, "Something's on the roof!" We thought that she was just screaming about an owl, so I went to shoo it away, but what I saw there was no owl.

It looked like an owl at first; there weren't any lights on the roof, so fine details fell by the wayside. The only clue I needed was when it stretched its wings. They were membranous and angular like bat wings, and it startled me so much that I yelped.

My yelp got my sister to come and investigate. She said that it looked like a Halloween decoration, and Mandie nodded in agreement. We were all on edge, but the thing that pushed us into panic was when it growled at us. My sister screamed at Mandie and me to go inside, and once we did, my sister followed us in and slammed the door. We proceeded to lock every door and window in the apartment, grabbing any weapons and setting up any defenses we could find.

That might seem a bit overkill, but it really scared us, and in hindsight, it was the right thing to do. The creature didn't get into the apartment, and we eventually fell asleep on our weapons.

When we woke up the next morning, our mom wasn't back yet, so we watched the news as we ate breakfast. The news reporter said that a couple of families had gone missing. Nobody knew who or what had taken the families, but I had a feeling that it had been the creature that had sat on the roof the previous night. My sister and Mandie, though, were more skeptical.

"So why do you think that the animal we saw could have killed all those people?" Mandie said between spoonfuls of cereal.

"Don't listen to him," my sister said. "That literally doesn't make any sense."

"It doesn't have to make sense! It's just a gut feeling!"

"Sheesh, calm down." My sister put away her bowl of cereal and went into her bedroom. "Come to my bedroom when you're finished," she called over her shoulder.

The next day, my sister was nowhere to be found.

Original Author - X The Troodon The kind people who edited this - Squidmanescape, PrincessMe69