Long claws tapped against the cold stone. The humongous ball of shadows slunk through the night, camouflaged by the sky. Its lip lifted, displaying numerous glistening teeth. Its bright, glowing eyes watched, observed, as its target quivered in fear, scrunched into a fetal position on the ground. The shadow creature snarled, eyes narrowing as it padded closer slowly. It leaned over the scrawny body of a girl no older than eleven, drool dripping from the corner of its mouth.

"Please! Don't hurt me, I'll do whatever you want, just don't harm me! I want to get back home!" The girl whined, tears pouring from her amber eyes. The shade canine just loomed, and stood still for a few seconds, before a large paw slammed down onto the girl's stomach. She screamed, the beast sinking its teeth into her arm. It ripped and ripped at her, dropping pieces upon pieces of flesh from her being. Blood oozed from her wounds that littered her tattered body. She just hung to the thread of life.

Although mangled, she somehow still managed a quiet "Please...", but the beast didn't understand, nor cared. It cracked her ribcage with its jaws, tossing the chunks of bone away. It tore out her lungs, pulled at her stomach, took out her kidneys, tossed every organ until it found the heart.

And it ate her heart.

It didn't want to put the rest to waste so it consumed the scattered pieces, excluding the bones. It even ate her eyes and her tongue, only leaving the bones, skin, and clothing that remained within the puddle of blood. It didn't need to clean itself, for the droplets of blood and all else that got onto it during the hunt sank into the shadows of its body.

And so it hunted for the rest of the night, many in the morning found dead, although it was simply a few pieces to identify them.

When the sun rose, however, it hid in a cave, the one where it resided. It had a few leftover remains which it had brought with it, to keep it fed until the night came again.