Brian woke
up with a stinging pain in his head, he opened his eyes and saw white lights in
his vision.
It was a
cloudy day in August, the weather switched from hot to cold on a whim. On
Monday it was blazing hot outside and on Tuesday it was raining, humid and
warm. Brian woke up on a Wednesday. The sky was cloudy, a cool breeze blew in
through the small space opened in Brian’s bedroom window. The thin sheet used
as a curtain danced on the breeze as the sun shone through the white sheet.
Brian dragged his hand over his face in an attempt to wake up. Brian would rub
his face in the morning to feel more awake, he always thought this was because
it made blood rush to his face and hopefully his brain.
Brian stood
up from his mattress on the floor, then stumbled as another shooting pain went
through his head. His bed was covered in a cheap white sheet, similar to his
window. He had one pillow and a small blanket to cover with. His studio
apartment was a large empty space with sparse furniture and white sheets
covering the three windows he had.
Brian
walked over to a small end table near his bed. The table was pressed up against
the wall and directly under a window. On the blue end table was a glass pipe, a
lighter, a metal railroad spike and a white coffee cup stained with coffee with
the words “Rocker Cat” on it, below the words was a cat with a blue Mohawk.
Brian
opened his window a little wider, picked up his glass pipe and lit it. He
inhaled deeply, held his breath then slowly exhaled. Thick smoke was expelled
out through his mouth and nose. He felt his nerves ease and the pains he woke
up with began calm. The sharp pain in his head continued though. He picked up
the long sharp spike a delicately placed it against the right side of his head
at the base of his skull and jammed the spike upward into his head. With a loud
squish and crunch the pain finally was gone.
Brian woke
up on the floor with a smile on his face and a railroad spike sticking from the
base of his skull. He stood up, rubbed his face again and picked up his “Rocker
cat” coffee mug from the end table. He went to the kitchen with his cup, washed
it out and made a fresh pot of coffee.
While he
went through his morning routine of washing up, making coffee and drinking
coffee, the spike in his skull did not fall out, his head didn’t bleed and from
the expression Brian’s face, the spike in his head wasn’t an unpleasant
sensation. Brian had a series of scars around the insertion point of the spike,
showing that he did this on a regular basis.
Once he was
dressed and had his coffee and other drugs, he stepped out of his front door
into his apartment building’s main hallway. The hallway was old fashioned and
looked like it was from the nineteen twenties. He was on the third floor and
casually walked down each flight of stairs, passing rows of other apartments on
his way.
Finally
Brian reached the exit to his building, opened the door and stepped out into
the wonderful city of Hallows End. It was the modern age for monsters and the
Halloween city of Hallows End had grown from a small settlement of creatures to
a city of every kind of creature and misfit that the outside world was afraid
of or disgusted with. Needless to say, Hallows End had some humans as well,
politicians, lawyers and bureaucrats were all welcome. These humans had to
follow the same rules as the monsters of the city and would be banished if they
hurt fellow citizens.
Brian
wasn’t human though he had human friends. Brian was a wendigo, an evil creature
born from human greed, cannibalism and taboo actions. So he had a lot going for
him. He was humanoid, with two arms, two legs, he wore pants and a t-shirt, had
paper white skin, deep sunken in eyes, sharp teeth hidden under thin pale lips,
a shaggy head of white hair with a stripe of blue dyed in it and a railroad
spike sticking out of his head.
Brian the Wedigo
tried his best to fit in with humans and other monsters but it was difficult to
not kill and violate every living creature in the area, so he had to take
medicine given to calm monsters and on top of that Brian was fond of smoking
herbs that he found in the Dark Forest.
Since Brian
had rapid healing and damage to the brain didn’t kill him like it would to
other creatures, he found that jamming a spike through his head was the only
thing that would cure his migraines, it also helped calm his aggressive
behavior.
Humans only
thought about monsters being acceptable on Halloween or when they visited
Hallows End in October. The truth that no one really thought about was, monsters
that exist on Halloween don’t just vanish after October ends, some do, but most
don’t, monsters still have to go on with their lives or afterlives the rest of
the year, trying their best to get by and resist the urge to eat children.
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