Such strange feelings, such odd emotions...the creature never ceased to be amazed by the sensations and feelings to be found in the physical world. He had spent countless millennia merely drifting... asleep. Drifting between the two worlds, unaware of anything but his own existence and that of the dark void he called home. He had not come to this island of his own choosing, nor had he truly chosen this lesser being that had awoken him and fused into his own. Though the man's memories still existed, his soul...his essence was completely erased, merely just a shadow now. Though not all of the man was gone, hungers...desires...remained. They consumed him, drove him. "He" found it odd that such a lesser being could have such a profound impact upon his own perfect being...perhaps that is what drove him as well. The creature's own pleasure was like a drug, a bliss unknown to him in previous years of existing and those he stalked their sweet screams, cries and even sometimes moan's only served to heighten his own rapture.

Hidden amoung the shadow's the creature shook his head clearing the cobwebs of his own dark musings and refocused back towards finding a suitible plaything for tonights enjoyment. Even the thought of the endless possiblities sent a shiver of excitment through out him...would she run, fight, beg. So many things could yet happen but he had to find just the right target. Moving from shadow to shadow as one himself the creature feared no one finding him as he was now he held no form, even using the various students shadows to slip through the dormitory. Another night the creature may have just jumped from the shadows and started grabbing what students failed to escape him but he was looking for something else tonight. "He" may not know what is currently, but he'd know when he found her.

Rumi sat on her bed her pen scribbling away on a sheet of paper every once in a while she picked up her guitar and strummed a few lines before putting it back down and returned to writing. She was writing music she wanted something to get her mind off what had happened since she had gotten her. The bitter taste in her mouth had not left her at first she had been despite to find that creature he had gotten her addicted to him the poison had taken away thoughts of anything else and a few days after the encounter she had started to hallucinate she guessed it was one of the withdraw symptoms but things where finally calming down she still craved it but it was better now she could think again.

Finally it seemed that she finished the music for the song she sung a few bars wordless she was simply testing how the melody would sound when she sung it. She grinned this was about the only thing that gave her joy now a days. School was hell most of her teachers thought she was a little crazy even if they didn't say anything and she could do nothing about it, the school work was hard and demanding more then she was use to and she had already fallen behind in some of her classes she sighed “And what are you doing instead of studying?” she said out loud putting the sheet of music away before sitting down on the bed with her guitar strumming randomly though the sounds it produced where pleasant enough.

Shadow by shadow the creature slipped down the hallways of the dormitories, his careful eyes shifting to not miss anything or any of the students that moved through out their own halls. It was not what he saw however that caught his attention. Past all the noise of the various students talking, listening to music and other such activities he heard something. Something that called to him as would perhaps a siren's call. A faint melody, a mere whisper really...but even in the small amount he caught the creature could feel the genuine emotion it held. The creature took a deep soundless breath and closed his eyes, trying to listen...wanting to hear more.

It was then the beast heard the maiden's song as she hummed...sweet and simple...yet the tone contained so much more. Music was not something new for the creature, he had heard alot of music so far during his short stay thus far...but to compared to that, what he heard now it lacked something. He would investigate, he needed to hear more. From deep within the corner of the shadows the beasts hollow grey eyes flashed open as a feral growl escaped his lips. With a pounce the shadow slid along the wall, darting off quickly towards the sound that had caught his interest. Perhaps, the creature thought to itself, it was going to be an entertaining night after all.

Rumi grumbled something and looked up at the roof. She sighed as she continued to play she wondered what everyone at home was doing it seemed like it had been years since she saw her old friends. Things seemed so different now everyone and everything she knew had been left behind for “This” she sighed “I guess I could always go and visit.” she thought.

She missed home she missed her father her friends her piano and even her bitch of a mother who seemed to enjoy telling her that she was going to be good for nothing besides bearing and caring for children. She sighed and almost laughed at home pathetic she was being She pushed herself up getting up from her bed still playing she walked over towards the window. She would normally worry about standing near a window with panties and a white button up half done up but she doubted anyone was out there. She stood looking out at the stars.

She laughed as she realized she was playing twinkle twinkle it had been the first song she had learned to play though back then she played it on violin. She smiled as she finished up the song and proceeded onto something a little less childish.

Even with moving quickly, it took the creature some time to pin point the faint songs he had heard, especially with all the noises one would expect to hear in a dormitory. Door by door the creature moved past and though the music was hardly consistent it was getting louder...and he was getting closer. Impatience was building inside the creature, another new emotion courtesy of the infectious hosts mind.

Finally, the door with the one whom's music drew him. The soft melody of twinkle twinkle little star played muffled from within. He would not have even known this song had it not been for the memories of his human host...but even with that he only had a vague idea of it. The being of shadow paused here, outside the door, just listening. Once the song ended the creature remaining as that of a shadow itself soundlessly slid under the door frame and entered unbidden into the girl's room.

Fortune favored The Nightbringer as he crept in noticing the girls back to the door and she played infront of the window and not watching the inky darkness the spilled out from under her door. Quickly the creature scurried into that of the girl's own shadow, blending his own shape to hers. His curious and hungry grey eyes the only sign that Rumi's shadow was not her own. The creature twitched with anticipation as his gaze settled on her young curvy body. Supple, young and unaware...the creature forced himself again to be wait, he would here more music before the games began. With a sneer he thought and should she not wish to sing or play more for him. She would sing another way as he played with her.

Rumi smiled softly as she stopped playing putting her guitar down she crawled back onto her bed. She wasn't tired but she needed to go to sleep. She closed her eyes and hummed to herself it was just a way for her to relax. She thought about all her experiences so far in this place it seemed everything that could go wrong has but she sighed softly “Well things can only get better from her right.” she said out loud as she turned off her bed side lamp.

The room was engulfed in darkness but something felt amiss Rumi didn't know what it was but something didn't feel right she wasn't sure what it was, after looking around and not noticing anything she lay back down to go to sleep dismissing it as her imagination, but it wasn't any good she couldn't sleep she got back up and looked around the room and even checked her closet but there was nothing as she headed back to bed she knocked her chair over.

She cried out in pain stubbing her toe on the stupid thing. She bent to pick up the chair and came face to face with a pair of Grey eyes. She blinked several times and then let out a pricing scream.

The creature watched and waited following inside the girls shadow as she lay back down upon her bed. He could smell her and nearly feel her against him as the small lamp sitting on had cast multiple shadows...the one he was in underneath her. As she turned off the lamp and darkness flooded the room he was poised to strike, his excitement growing and ...
she got up out of bed. Of course, he followed...even though the room was dark it was not pitch black and she still cast a shadow. Watching her every more, the beast waited...maybe she would play some more...or maybe sing. In his own thoughts of things to come, perhaps not paying as much attention as he should he his brought back to reality as the girl stumbles and comes face to face with two dimensional creature hidden within her shadow. Or at least he is brought back by the sweet sound her fearful scream.

No regret filled the creature as he tore himself from the girls shadow, rising up from within it to manifest once again in the physical realm. Larger and larger the humanoid shaped beast grew, rising to a height of at least 8 feet in height. His shadowy skin seemed slick and shiny though he mere presence seemed to cause all the shadows within the room to grow even darker. Reaching out, the monsters hand split apart at the fingers...each finger writhing and twisting as it grows into a large shadowy tendril as all five of them head towards the girl. The beast however did not wish his prey to escape so easily and in the shadows of night the darkness seemed to move with a mind of it's own, blanketing the door and sealing it shut. Lust filled and wanting the creature's tongue rolled from the gapping hole that looked more like a tear in a velvety fabric than a mouth. Long like the tendril's that now rushed to grab the girl, the thick tentacle like tongue licked at the corners of the creatures mouth, dripping goo.

He could have just wrapped her up right then and there and gotten to the main course, but he did enjoy his little games and even more seeing what the girls would do.