THE BEGINNING

Anthony Davis was a fifteen years old boy who just got transferred to the Bureau of familiars academy. The school was a prestigious institution with the best educated teachers and top of the class facilities. Anthony knew only one person who attended the school; Joshua, His best friend or former best friend actually. They both wanted badly to join them but sadly Anthony was never granted admission but his friend Joshua was.

          The last time Anthony saw his friend was at his Step-dads burial, he tried to talk to him but he was in no talking mood so he backed off. They had promised to always keep in touch even though they went to different schools but after they both went to school they never spoke again. This really hurt Anthony considering that Joshua was his first friend.

         Anthony formerly attended a public school but his dad had just recently gotten a well deserved promotion and he decided to change Anthonys school cause of the negative memory it had imprinted on both of them. It was in the school that Anthony had lost his mum and had never been the same, but you see Anthony hadn't meant for his mums, all he wanted was to play games with his friends, a game which went horribly wrong.

          The School bell signalling end of school had just been rung and all students ran out of classes to start their playful activities before their parents came over and spoilt their fun. Anthony was playing hide and seek with his clique when his mum arrived and started searching for him but Anthony wasn't ready to go to home, he had won the hide and seek game eight times on a row, two more times and he would've broken the schools record and crowned king of hide and seek so this was an opportunity too good to miss. Mrs Davis went over to the playing ground and saw her son hiding in a bush with other kids and called out to him but Anthony ignored her.  Frustrated she walked over to Anthony and yelled his name and no sooner had that happened one of his friends came over and tapped Anthony saying "caught you"

         Anthony yelled in rage and reluctantly followed his Mom.

"So your dad said he'll be coming home late this night cause he's having a very important meeting at his office, if he's able to win over the contract he'll finally be promoted so let's go make something nice for him before he gets back". His mum had said, but Anthony wasn't listening he was just staring angrily at his mum while she was talking in front of him

         That was when he heard the voice, a tiny little voice telling him to just shove her as hard as he could so she could learn her lesson. Anthony stared at his mum as she walked in the parking area towards her car, the anger and frustration growing deep inside him. The angrier he felt the louder the voice, it became so loud it was practically shouting at him to push her so she could fall. Anthony struggled to shut the voice but nothing was working, he clenched his ears and squeezed his face but he could still hear. He fell down on his knees and shouted

"Shut up, shut up,shut up"

He felt someone touch his arm and he looked up expectantly but what he saw wasn't his mom, it wasn't even human.

It had a narrow face with close-set eyes, thin eyebrows, and high cheekbones with razor sharp fangs and it had the most mischievous but evil smile on its face. It's hands weren't even hands, there was a paw with razor sharp claws where a hand was supposed to be.  Anthony yelled

"Get away from me"

and pushed the fox like figure away from him but when he looked again he saw his mom on the floor with a slight cut on her cheeks. She looked at him with fear in her eyes and said

"Anthony what's gotten int...." She couldn't even complete her sentence when a huge jeep slammed into her sending her flying across the parking area. Her blood sprayed on Anthony immediately the jeep collided with her. Anthony stared in horror as his mother's body landed with a lifeless thud. He couldn't even get up, he just sat there on the concrete floor trying to convince himself it was just a dream.

          Passerby's surrounded him and tried to distract from staring at his mother's body but it was too late, Anthony screamed and yelled and kicked and punched the air. He hadn't meant to push her, he hadn't even meant for any of his to happen. He blamed himself and couldn't bare the guilt. He screamed that it was his fault but everyone thought he was talking out of grief and shock so no one took his statement seriously. His dad was called and told about the "accident", he rushed over to the hospital she was taken to confirm if what he was told was true and was devastated to see that it was. Him and his son cried at the hospital that evening. He never got the promotion he deserved and all in the Davis residence was sad and quiet, but this all happened in Anthony's seventh grade and he was entering tenth grade now.

        Anthony never told anyone about what really happened, he once tried to tell his dad the truth but his dad had just recovered from his drinking phase which he started after his mom died so he thought telling him might ignite that past his again so he decided to keep it all to himself. Anthony never knew what exactly he saw that day and he was willing to swear that his imagination was playing jokes with him but more than once he had seen that fox like figure laughing at his predicament and what was really weird is that it stood on its hind legs and had four tails but on the day of his mother's death he could've sworn the   fox demon grew another tail in front of him while laughing then fading like it was never there.

          But all this happened far in the past and Anthony was prepared for a better future in his new school. But little did he know the trouble that awaited him in the school.