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10:21 PM December 18, 2006, seven days until Christmas

'My God...'. Detective Jake Simmons thought at the disgusting sight right in front of him.

Despite investigating multiple crime scenes before in his 15-year-long career as a detective. This has to be the most gruesome crime scene he has ever seen. The image itself will forever be burned in his mind.

It all happened hours ago when he received a phone call from a horrified landlord frantically saying that there's been a murder.

An entire apartment space filled with the mangled, dismembered, half-eaten corpses of what was left from different women, their blood covering the walls, furniture, and decorations to the smallest detail. Organs, bones, and limbs were scattered everywhere, two of the bodies were missing their heads. He later found them in the apartment's bathroom in the tub, the walls and floor bathroom itself were covered in blood, entrails, and human...feces.

He dealt with a lot of sick and demented people before, but whoever did this made the people he put behind bars look like complete pussies. 

The moment he and a couple of officers walked into the apartment, all of them immediately discharged their breakfast and bile.

The bodies were taken in for examination and identification. A total of seven different bodies were counted and identified

Victim IDs (You guys can just skip this part, sorry).

V#1: Sasha Styles (Age: 30, Occupation: Flight Attendant, Note: lives in Ohio, reported missing two days ago, how did she end up in Glenberry?).    

V#2: Iza Miller (Age: 24, Occupation: Sex Worker, Note: Was missing for 32 hours reported by a friend, her head was ripped off from her body at the crime scene).

V#4:  Brooke Belrose (Age: 25, Occupation: Club Manager, Note: Was reported missing by her husband approximately three days ago, took a while to ID her because her body was the most massacred out of all of them).

V#5: Katherine Rembrite (Age: 36, Occupation: Laundromat owner, Note: Divorced, has an 11-year-old daughter named Lola, was reported missing by said daughter two days ago).

V#6: Stella Ashton (Age: 22, Occupation: College Student, Note: Went missing while out clubbing with some friends, went to the bathroom, and never returned, some witnesses say they saw a man on top of the nightclub's roof, best to check security and traffic cameras).

V#7: Willa Amberton (Age: 20, Occupation: Pornstar, Note: During one of her adult streams three days ago the feed cut itself off momentarily, and then she instantly vanished).

But one thing is for sure, this has to be the worst Christmas for all the victim's families.

Just what kind of monster could do such a thing?

"HAAHAHAHAHA!!! DADDY STOP!! T-THAT TICKLES!!! EEE!!".

A little seven-year-old blonde girl squealed and laughed as her father ambushed her with a tickle attack, her mother Jessie watched the pair with an amused smile on her face.

"I'm gonna eat ya! I'm gonna eat ya!". The tall pale grey-haired man laughed as he buried his face in his daughter's stomach and nibbled on her soft skin making her laugh even more as the two wrestled in bed.

It was snowing outside of their two-story home that they'd been living in for years, Christmas decorations were hung around the house and the tree was set up.

Jessie flicked through various channels trying to find whatever was interesting until she landed on the news channel.

"A horrible gruesome crime was committed in this apartment today, as dismembered bodies of several women were found in an apartment flat many hours ago by the landlord". The reporter spoke as he stood outside said apartment, with numerous police cars, ambulances, etc. on the scene of the crime.

The camera next showed detective Simmons speaking at a press conference.

"A horrific and unforgivable crime was committed today. On what was supposed to be the most special time of the year, the crime I witnessed has left my mind scarred beyond anything else. And I will not rest until the sick bastard who did this is brought to justice!". He spoke with conviction and determination in his voice that left no room for argument.

Douma takes interest in the news as he sits beside her on the couch with Tiffany fast asleep in his arms.

Photos of each of the victims were displayed on the screen as the news anchor kept on speaking about the details of the investigation.

"My God...that's in our city". Jessie said in fear and having sympathy for the victims and their families.

Douma rubs her back in a reassuring comforting way.

"Come on let's head to bed, as horrible as it is, it's best not to think about it too much, if it worries you we can just spend Christmas in our home". Douma gave her a reassuring smile.

She smiled back as she followed her daughter and not yet official husband to bed.

To Be Continued...

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Little Tiffany absolutely loved her father, I mean why wouldn't she?

Her daddy was the sweetest, kindest, most loveable person she ever knew.

Even though her mom had her when she was very young, her dad did everything he could to give them a comfortable life.

Whenever she was upset, daddy would patiently listen to her problems and help in the best way that he can. And whenever she cried, her daddy would always be there for her and her mom.

She was indeed lucky to have such a man as her father.

But she and her mom were also curious about her daddy's work, whenever she'd ask him he'd always give a small laugh and say that he works for a very rich man who he calls 'Master'. Her mom would find it a bit odd, while Tiffany thought that daddy knows kung fu, just like all the cool Chinese movies that starred Jackie Chan that she'd watch because she thought that her daddy's boss was a kung fu master just because he calls him master.

Her mom and dad laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt.

Douma could recall when he first met Jessie Maye eight years ago.

He had just arrived in the city of Glenberry in the united states for the purpose of a task his 'Master' gave to him. Apparently, news and rumors started to spread within the botany community about the discovery of a rare flower that was thought to be nothing more than a myth and according to the stories and folklore, was said to cure all diseases known.

His Master was sure that it was the Blue Spider Lily, the final ingredient to his Master's plans. 

Master also told him to blend in with the people to gather more information about the flower as well as its whereabouts.

And so, blend in he did. It was pretty easy actually, according to Douma.

All he had to do was to spy on the students of East Birchwood Highschool, the largest High school in Glenberry, then he picked out his next prey.

He settled for James Miller, the captain of the football team and the most popular boy in school. All that Douma did next was kill him when night came, and eat the body even though he didn't eat men for he didn't like their taste and always ate women for their bodies were more nutritious and gave him way more power and strength. Then he shapeshifted into the poor sucker and attended East Birchwood the next day, while also simultaneously avoiding the sun.

For the next few weeks, the students would notice something very off about James, he wasn't acting like his usual self, like how he quit the football team for reasons unknown leaving the coach and entire team in despair, because Douma didn't give a shit about football or have any knowledge about the sport at all, and the times he would randomly sing Tiptoe By The Tulips while walking through the halls towards his next class.

Douma however loved unsettling the students while also maintaining a mask of normalcy, it made him laugh heartily a few times.

Then he was approached by a shy but beautiful little thing by the name of Jessie Maye. She had pretty blue eyes that were behind large windsor glasses which made her look a bit like a nerd but Douma found it adorable, and long locks of beautiful blonde hair.

It was something of a mutual friendship at first, he planned on eating her in the beginning since they met, but for some reason that he couldn't explain...he didn't. 

Something about her...made him feel odd. And he hated it. He never understood it.

Was it her smile? her laugh? her beauty? or was it because she reminded him of someone from his past?

Kotoha...the only human who he ever regretted killing. Her smile and kindness to everything around her could make Douma's useless heart beat once more. If only she never caught him feeding, if only she didn't call him a monster and ran away.

They could've been so much more together. It was no surprise that her son would march up to him years later to kill him.

He didn't kill the boy, just merely paralyzed him from the waist down, the boy looked so much like his mother, he just couldn't kill him.

Is that who Jessie is? Was she his Kotoha reborn into a new life?

Everything about her reminded him of his beloved Kotoha.

Months passed, and he and Jessie were in a relationship. Every girl in school was jealous that the so-called social outcast was dating the hottest and most popular guy in school 'oh those poor idiots, if only they knew what happened to the real James'.

One of those girls tried to pull a cruel prank on Jessie, splashing pig blood, that she got from the local butcher, all over her during gym practice. Jessie cried so hard that day.

He had given her some new clothes which were definitely not from his previous victims and walked her home once the sun was out.

And the girl that pulled the prank? Well, let's say that Douma rated his breakfast the next morning a 2.5 out of 10.

He will never tolerate anyone or anything that'll harm what belongs to him.

It had been over a year since he met Jessie. He had already completed the task his Master gave to him, the so-called mythical blue spider lily which was the source of all the news and rumors within the botanist community turned out to be a complete hoax. Long story short, he managed to retrieve information about the flower's whereabouts and informed his master.

What they found instead wasn't the blue spider lily but an extremely rare species of orchid instead. Douma choked and nearly laughed when he saw how pissed his Master was, as it was visible on his face, which prompted his master to rip off his head and spine, Douma never really minded whenever his master did that to him as he regenerated nearly instantly.

He had no more reason to stay in Glenberry anymore but still stayed anyway, for his beloved Jessie was still living there.

"I'm pregnant". James (Douma) blinked

"...What?".

Jessie had been getting sick for the past few days, and Douma was starting to get worried. Today, however, Jessie asked him to speak to her alone at the back of the school.

That couldn't be possible...demons, there were no records of humans and demons ever having children together. Demons weren't born they were created, if a demon was strong enough they can turn other humans into demons as well.

Jessie hadn't been with any other man besides him, he could tell by her scent that he was the only one who ravaged her body every single night when they were alone together.

Well, this was a predicament.

"J-James, m-my parents t-they *sob* t-they kicked me out, I-I don't have anywhere else to go!". Jessie cried heavily as she clutched tightly unto his red varsity jacket making it wet with her tears.

James hugged her tightly while whispering reassuring and comforting words to her ear, while on the inside he was seething in fury and bloodlust when Jessie told him her parents kicked her out.

Oh well, he'd deal with them later, for now, he had to focus on Jessie and his child.

But he was also curious, would the child be a human or a demon? He was also happy that he'd have a child of his own, throughout his 322 years of living he never thought that much about his parents when he was still human, but could still recall how stupidly idiotic, foolish, and horrible his beloved mother and father were.

He swears that he'll be a better parent for his child.

It was night. He and Jessie managed to find an apartment just two days later. He admired her sleeping form in the bed they shared as she looked so peaceful, he pecked her forehead and slowly but stealthily went out for the night.

Moving at inhuman speeds, he leaped from rooftop to rooftop, building from building until he found himself in front of his girlfriend's old house.

Transforming back into his true form, his rainbow-colored eyes illuminated the darkness of the night.

Words written in kanji were engraved into both his eyes.

Upper-Rank 2.

With a predatory grin, he entered the house.

To Be Continued...