You are leaving your neighborhood and pulling onto one of the major roads in your town/city and see no other vehicles around. This is definitely unusual as it is currently rush hour. You decide not to worry about that right now and continue onto the police station, which is downtown. As you are driving towards the police station you glance in your rear view mirror to see a flash of orange cross the street behind your vehicle. However, when you glance again a few seconds later there is nothing there. You start to feel unsettled and hope to reach the police station soon.
You are a few blocks from the police station when something slams into the side of your car and almost causes you to lose control of it and run into something. You however have a firm grip on your steering wheel and are able to keep yourself on the road. You are not going to stop to check the damage right now as you want to get to the police station as quickly as possible. Your vehicle is still running fine so you continue on your way.
You finally reach the police station. You see that most of their vehicles are there so there must be someone here hopefully. Yet, you don't see anyone entering or exiting the building. Come to think of it, you have not seen anybody outside on your drive on the way over either.
You look around before stepping out of your vehicle to make sure you are alone. Not seeing anything you get out to check the damage done to the passenger side of your vehicle. You see a major dent that might have damaged the frame of your vehicle. There is nothing you can do about it right now, so you continue on your path to the doors of the police station.
Just as you are about to reach them something passes over your head. You know this because you see a large shadow on the ground. It passes over another time and you hear something land behind you. You turn around quickly to find yourself in the presence of another strange creature. This one also stands on two legs and is about four feet tall. It has the body and wings of an owl. It is covered in feathers that are varying shades of grey and white. It has the head of a bald eagle and its legs and talons look as if they belong to an ostrich. This creature is just sitting on top of a police car watching you. You are still for a second before it caws like a crow. This startles you and causes you to jump. Your jumping startles the bird creature as it spreads its wings and takes off into the sky. It disappears into the distance.
You turn back around to the police doors finally reaching them. You hope you do not find any more strange creatures. You grab the door of the police station and try to open it. You pull on it but it does not open and is locked. You pause for a second wondering what in the frick is going on around here. First, you have seen no people about, and have only seen two weird creatures so far. Then, the door to the police station is locked when they are usually open at this hour. You wonder if maybe you are dreaming. You let go of the handle and pinch your right arm to see if it hurts. Yes, that definitely hurts therefore you now know that this is not a dream.
You decide to try knocking on the glass to see if there is even anyone at the police station. There are no lights inside and nobody is coming towards you. You now have no clue what to do as you seem to be the only non animal like creature around. You head back towards your car and do not see any more creatures on your way to it. You get back into your car and start it. You pull out of the police station parking lot.
You decide that your best next course of action is locating a charger for your phone and a place to charge it. You also decide that it would be a good idea to locate a TV that would have a news station on it covering what is going on. Seeing as all the places seem abandoned you pull over at your local big box store that carries everything. You pull into the empty parking lot and park close to the doors. You stop your car and get out and head towards the doors, as you are walking towards them you hear the sound of wings flapping behind you. You quickly glance over your shoulders to see the owl creature swooping down towards you with its claws extended out at you. You pick up speed and are now running towards the doors of the store. You are at the area of the doors where it should register you are there and should automatically open. Yet they are not, they are not and are locked. You see the reflection of the owl creature behind you. You quickly duck down just missing those sharp claws slicing you open. It crashes into the glass doors of the store. The glass cracks and shatters inwards from the impact. This causes glass to scatter all over the entrance of the store. You hear the owl crash into the ground and see it slide across the entrance floor into the can display that this store keeps at the entrance. The cans crash down on top of the creature. As the cans settle you do not see the animal moving at all. You carefully approach the entrance of the store being careful to avoid the broken glass that is everywhere. You slowly creep around the owl creature and the cans keeping an eye out for any movement in case it attacks you again. It is still not moving. When you get far enough into the store you can see the head of the creature. It has a head wound from where it slammed its head against the floor and is slowly bleeding. The creature has been knocked out unconscious for now.
Once you are out of sight of it in the store you head towards the electronic section. You reach it after navigating to the lightswitches to turn them on so you can see where you are going. You reach the electronic section and find the charger that corresponds with your phone. You make sure to leave money at the register, because you are not a thief. You continue to look for a place to plug your phone in but are having no luck finding a spot in the main store area. You then remember that there has to be a place/room for employees to go to for their breaks. You look around for it and find a door at the back of the store that leads to the employee break room.
Inside this room are two couches on the far side of the room away from the door. There is a fridge, sink, counter and table area to the right side of the room from the door. What you are most interested in however, is the outlet beside one of the couches and the Tv mounted to the wall to the left side of the door. You enter the room, closing the door behind you, and, just in case, locking it. You go sit down on the couch and plug in your phone. You set it down on the coffee table in front of the couch. You find on the coffee table a remote for the Tv. You turn on the TV and the first thing you see is static. You change the channel thinking it was on a station that the TV does not get. However, every channel you try is all static. You are having no luck with the TV so you turn it off and set the remote back down on to the coffee table.
You pick up your phone and turn it on. Hopefully you will be able to connect to the wi-fi or you have your data plan as backup. It turns on and you get into your phone. You check to see if you have any new messages or notification of missed calls. There are none. You decide to see if you can figure out what is going on by looking it up on the internet. However, you are unable to connect to the wi-fi as there is not any. You then try to use your data plan but are still unable to connect. You then notice that your phone says that it has no signal up in the corner of your phone. You know earlier when you were using your phone that you had a signal and you also know that you regularly have a strong signal in this part of the city/town. You try turning your phone off and then back on but this does not resolve the issue. You give up on it, and let it charge till it is fully charged.
While it is charging you start to feel hungry and go over to the fridge to find something to eat. When you open the fridge you find something you were not expecting to find in the fridge. You find another of those weird creatures going at it at the leftover salad that was left in the fridge by one of the store’s employees. This animal is much more calm and docile compared to the other ones you have come across. It looks like a rabbit but doesn’t have buck teeth or rodent-like teeth, instead its teeth resemble that of a horse’s. It also does not have paws. Instead what you find is that it has amphibian-like hands and feet with webbing between its toes and fingers. The tail also looks as if it should belong to a mouse and not a rabbit. It glances at you and just goes back to continuing to eat its lettuce. You shrug slowly, starting to get used to all the weird stuff that is going on around you. The creature and the salad are on the bottom shelf of the fridge. There is also a container filled with your favourite food beside the creature. You reach in to try to reach it being careful not to jostle or touch the creature. However, before you can reach it the creature begins shifting around and no longer seems interested in the salad in the fridge. It bumps up against your hand and pauses. You are too afraid to move to pull your hand out of the fridge. It freezes and slowly turns to look at your hand.
To be continued.
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