WattyOrigins contest entries.

Round 1 - Nightwalker.

Milo ran through the forest as hunters chased him. He wouldn't give up. Too many of his loved ones had sacrificed their lives to make sure he lived.

Milo was a nightwalker.

Nightwalker was a term used to describe special beings that played an important role in every living being's life.

"How you doing out there, Smiles?" A male voice spoke in the earpiece that Milo wore.

"How do you think I'm doing?" He growled into the link.

The man on the other side laughed. Milo rolled his eyes.

The job of a nightwalker was to take a life every night so that another would be born. In the day, Death would release his newer pets to do the deed. Milo and some others were the last of the beings.

Milo was the purest one of them all for he had only the blood of a pure nightwalker unlike most of them who had human partners.

Milo transformed into a black cat and climbed up a tree. The hunters ran past the tree and he let out a sigh of relief. He couldn't leave. They had a limit to using their energy. Death had replaced his kind with another for that very reason.

Milo panted heavily. Normally he was hard to catch but, the hunters had a few upgrades. They had put detectors around the small town.

He transformed back and spoke into the device, "I might need some pick up."

"Are they nearby?"

"No."

"Good, I'll reach your location in a few." Milo put a hand over his chest as he breathed heavily.

After a while, a man reached the tree. Milo looked down at him with half closed eyes. "Finally." He whispered and lowered himself down to the ground.

"I've told you so many times to be careful. You knucklehead." The man said as he smacked Milo's head. The younger boy groaned and swatted his hand away before he could do anything else.

"Don't give me a lecture now, Kuro." He mumbled as he leaned against said man. Kuro chuckled and ruffled the boy's hair.

Two nights later, Milo had to go out again. He sensed the ending for another human. He would ignored it if he could but the constant sensing in his body would drive him insane overnight and eventually, kill him.

"Another one?" Kuro asked. Milo nodded and grabbed a pair of joggers from the shoe closet.

"I'll go with you."

"It's too dangerous. I'm faster than you so It's better if I go alone." Milo told him sternly.

Kuro sighed and shook his head. "I'm going."

Milo ended up taking him along. Kuro wouldn't stop bugging him about it. He had to give it to the older guy, he was persuasive, annoyingly.

They both drove to the wherever the feeling of death came from, bringing them to an apartment complex at the east side of the town.

Milo got out of the pickup along with Kuro. They walked up to the entrance of the building and faced one another.

"We make this quick, Alright?" Milo demanded. They knew sensors would pick up on them.

Kuro nodded and they both walked in.

Kuro was only 5 years older than Milo who was in his twentieth year. He had found Milo when the boy was about to fall into the hands of hunters.

They both swiftly moved into the building and followed where their senses took them. Once they stood in front of the door, Milo gave Kuro a quick nod. Kuro passed through the closed door with his ability and unlocked it from the inside. Milo walked inside and they both advanced towards the bedroom.

The men found a woman asleep on the bed. Milo frowned. "She seems like a college student." He whispered to Kuro.

Kuro nodded and walked towards her. There was a bottle of sleeping pills on her nightstand. Kuro picked the bottle up and opened it to find it empty.

"She's committing suicide." He told Milo.

Milo's face instantly dropped. He didn't want her to kill herself.

"Can we do something?" He asked the older nightwalker. Kuro thought for a moment before nodding.

"We could take her to the hospital or I could take the pills out but, that would be kinda nasty. Plus, I'm not sure if I'll be able to grab the pills without getting my hand stuck in her body." He told.

They both decided on taking her to the hospital. Though, something triggered the sensor that the hunters had put.

They ran towards the emergency exit of the building. Kuro had the other girl securely in his arms.

He sat the unconscious girl in the passenger seat and buckled her in. "She'll be safe here. We have to draw the hunters away before taking

"We need to split up. If I don't make it back in 20 minutes, Leave." Kuro said.

Milo separated from Kuro after a long argument while they were running side by side.

Kuro led the hunters away from Milo while the younger nightwalker transformed into his feline form. He jumped down in a sewer to mask any trace of him. He glowed as he ran.

Kuro ran as the hunter was shooting fireballs at him. Milo didn't know that Kuro was sacrificing himself to save him. Kuro smiled as he turned around at faced the hunters. He couldn't run as fast a Milo.

The hunter threw his fireball and Kuro used his ability so that the fireball would pass right through him. He ran at a hunter and shoved his hand through the chest and solidified his hand, ripping the heart out.

It was no use though. One man came from behind and lit him on fire, turning him to ash.

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There was no trace of Kuro and Milo understood that he was dead. He promised himself for Kuro, He would live.

Milo moved away to another city to stay clear of hunters.

He started the life he wanted to. A human life.