text: It was a regular Sunday in march, like all days now, bleak and miserable. A grey day where the streets were lined with small, shallow puddles but there was never any rain. If you looked up you would not see blue just more dull pale clouds. Although no one was really out to look for it, especially not the Ponds. Sundays were always their lazy days they may occasionally go to church but it mostly consisted of them doing nothing and sitting around the house. Except not this day, this day was already off to a bed start when the man of the house David Pond, husband to Lily Pond and Father to three kids George, Adam and Eddie, had to leave early due to a work emergency. David was a police officer, sergeant actually although this wasn’t exactly all it seems considering he operates in the sleepy town of Brownly. Which made the fact he was being called out at eight in the morning even weirder. He wasn’t even told what it was he was going out to just that it was an emergency. The noise of David rushing around had stirred everyone in the house and pretty soon the whole house set out going about their day which was very unusual for a Sunday at eight in the morning. It wasn’t long before David was ready dressed in his unflattering black uniform his messy brown hair sort of neater than when he woke up and his car engine running. He quickly popped into his house to grab a slice of toast and kiss Lily goodbye before setting off to attend this emergency. He mulled it over in the car and decided this could be an opportunity to make a seriously good impression on the higher ups and maybe get that promotion he wanted. If he hadn’t of been thinking of this, if he hadn’t of been making sure he looked presentable in the wing mirror and if he had been looking at the road then maybe just maybe he’d have seen the seven-foot beast that was towering about an upturned car around the corner. But he didn’t see the shaggy giant and it didn’t see him. They collided at quite some speed which activated the airbags in David’s car obstructing his sight and hindering his escape from the vehicle, the thing smashing into the door of the upturned Toyota denting it beyond repair with its huge frame. Within seconds it was back on its goliath feet using its boney arms to support its dazed self. David still had no clue what was going on, but he finally got control of the air bag and it slowly deflated and banging pain in his head. He could just about open his eyes in time to see the creature launch itself with its power hind legs onto the bonnet smashing the windscreen as it did so. The rest was blur as David’s life flashed before his eyes, everything from his childhood, to meeting lily, to having the kids and finally his death. Impaled through the throat by this otherworldly thing claw. The whole thing was over in seconds and the beast retracted its claw just before George’s eyes glossed over. The last thing he ever saw was the huge dog like monster bounding off into the forest and then the darkness of death. Lily’s heart seemingly skipped a beat causing her to let go of the milk in her hand, spilling it all over the floor. “God dam it!” she exclaimed which led to her eldest son George to come to her aid. “What happened mum?” George asked a confused tone to his voice. “Nothing it just slipped out my hand that’s all. But it means someone needs to go to get some more. ADAM!” she called for her second oldest son Adam. He’s good natured boy but not but he wasn’t very intelligent and he was very dependent on other people even though he just recently turned twelve. He came rushing down the stairs and skidded to a halt just outside the kitchen. “Yeah Mum.” He said as he leant against the doorway eying the mess George was now on his hands and knees clearing with his Mum. “Go to my bag and fetch a fiver to go buy some milk,” She ordered him. “Seriously why can’t George do it?” He whined in response. “Can’t you see I’m busy donkey brains?” George quipped back. “George! You do not talk to your brother like that. And Adam just do me a favor and go the shop’s only round the corner it wont take you more than ten minutes” Lily said ending the conversation there. “Fine!” Adam huffed as he stormed off the get the money.