A monster born (Private)

As the girls eyes adjusted properly to the dark alleyway she found herself in, she became aware of the figure that towered over her. The figure, silhouetted against distant street lights, sheathed two long swords. though little detail was observable she saw his eyes, also with red pupils, and his shirt hair that rippled softly in the cool night air.

He took one step forward this brought him into the light, his clothes seemed average for a salary man, brown shoes, black trousers, white shirt. Two things were off about the man however, the first was the two swords sheathed at his hip the second was the blood that covered him from feet to hair, his hair, appeared to be a dark green colour, now offset with red.

Inspection of his face revealed a scar from the left of his lips to his left ear, it had healed and now left only the line in his skin. his eyes red with the whites replaced with obsidian black ran thick with red veins.

"Girl, can you stand. We need to move"

His deep strong voice echoed in the dark alleyway.

Lacking all patience he grabbed her collar and lifted her up with strength betraying his thin frame, although thin e stood nearly a foot taller than the girl.

"Quietly, follow me"

Pulling a long jacket from the ground he pulled up the collar and took out a hat from the pocket, his blood stained from now covered by the black of night and the swords concealed beneath the coat, he set off walking taking the girls hand.

"Act normally"

He ordered pulling her out of the alley they set off heading for a safer place to talk.

The man grew impatient knowing doves or worse could come looking at any time, he looked down at the scared little girl and once more grabbed her arm forcing her a long. He focused himself and his eyes once again returned to normal.

"We can't wait around and talk here it isn't safe. If we get to my apartment we can at least talk."

His voice was deep but dry of any sort of noticeable emotion. He simply took her had and forced her the short walk to the apartment he lived in.

The par reached the apartment and checking both ways down the corridor the man hurriedly unlocked the door shovelling the poor girl inside as quick he could. Following in he was hit by the familiar smell of the room he lived in, the apartment was small with only one room and an adjoining shower room. The smell however, was cat food, cat waste and some other smell, a more rancid smell. He stepped through the carpet of cat food bags and coffee jars to the only feasible chair in the room. Clearing it of wrappers he set it down and told the girl to sit.

"Now ask me your questions"

He chuckled slightly.

"So you don't know what I am."

He moved towards her grabbing the side of her face and pulling it close.

"I'm the same as you."

At the end of the sentence his eyes changed and two long thin snake like tails grew from the smalll of his back, snapping maws at the ends of them.

"Girl I'm a ghoul, and so are you. We eat people, fight to live and live out our own worst nightmare's each day."

His expression then completely flipped, his joking face turned to one of stern seriousness.

"As for why I'm covered in blood, there were two men chasing you. As to why you're covered in blood I was hoping that you knew, which i guess you don't."

While the girl ranted he stood back waiting for her to finish. She obviously didn't know how much her life would about to change and how much she was going to have to struggle through. He turns back to face her now that she had finished talking.

"Girl, I don't know you all I know is that two special investigators were chasing you and that you're a ghoul. I felt the need to help you. And by the sounds of it, it may have been a good idea. Girl can you feel a muscle in your back. Anywhere? If you can flex it just like you would in your arm. It might feel a little weird. Around your shoulder or anywhere down to the base of your spine."

If what I think is about to happen happens, she's either a very high rating and just doesn't know it or maybe a kaguja and has just finally lost her mind. Gods I hope it neither.

He stood the girl up then stepped back. And waited.

She screamed! This isn't good. She needs to be quiet

The man leaped forward and tackled her to the ground putting his hand over the girls mouth, at the same time his two tails pinned down her wings.

"Quiet you idiot you want the whole 15th ward knowing there's a ghoul living here"

So she's an ukaku, and pretty powerful judging by the size of those wings.

She looked to have stopped screaming into his hand so he removed it from her mouth, he stop back up. This time leaving her on the floor, from this position he towered over her.

"Girl whoever you may be, you are a ghoul an ukaku no less, and your wings look powerful. You've appeared to have lost your memory and my guess is that the doves are behind it. As the strongest ghoul in the ward its my duty to protect any ghoul who has fled here for a calmer life away from doves and cannibals. But first, do you remember anything from before you awoke."

She really doesn't know anything or does she?

"No I'm not a ukaku, a ukaku is a fast, ranged but you'll run out of stamina quick in a fight."

She might be acting so i won't show her everything.

"I'm a bikaku these tails come from the base of my spine, they're fully prehensile I can even do this with them."

The two tails move round and draw the two long curved swords from their scabbards, they move with inhuman speed and appear to be a Gray blur as he picks up speed in the short display of ability. the two tails re sheathe the swords unclip them from his belt and toss them to the other side of the room.

"There's one more thing, here we don't kill for food. I've had to live that path once and it isn't pretty, there are a few ghouls in this ward who work in morgues and hospitals who can bring us the food we need."

He walks to the cupboards that were in a state of disrepair. Opening the cupboard revealed packets of blood soaked objects, he took one out and threw it across the room to the girl.

"You'll be hungry, eat."