Mother wasn't acting right, she'd been aggressive and harsh all day. Now that it was dark she'd become...different, even more angry, and much more violent. Her children hid in their room, clutching each other, they had locked the door too try to keep her away from each other. "What's wrong with mommy"  Whispered the youngest, he leaned against his brother, hiding his dark hair against his older brother's chest, who held him close protectively.

 "I don't think that's mom" he muttered to his younger sibling, hoping against hope that it was just a demon pretending to be the mother. Outside their room came a groaning, clicking sound, followed by an inhuman scream like that of a monster hunting it's prey, the door began to shake as the screams became more and more terrifying, louder, deeper, slowly becoming an enraged roar like an angry ocean, somehow too deep to be the mothers, too harsh, too large and lacking in real emotion.

       The older brother grabbed his younger brother and opened the window, they climbed onto the roof  climbed down  while the eldest  carried his brother on his back. "Go to the neighbors house and call 911!" He shouted at his brother as he pushed him to the neighbors. "I'm going to check on mom, maybe she's hurt and whatever it is that attacked us is pretending to be her. It's a demon, mom has to be okay." He's not just convincing his brother, he's convincing himself. Because he's afraid, and his mother has to be okay, because he's just a child himself. 

      He turned and snuck back into the house through the kitchen window, trying hard to be as quiet as he could. He didn't hear anything as he went inside. The kitchen was empty, but everything was torn apart, flour was all over the floor,  as he searched the house he saw that the wall paper was ripped in places, and all the furniture was broken and scattered, he crept up the stairs, that's when he heard it, a scratching and grunting noise, he looked for the source and found it in his brothers room, his mother, or something that looked like his mother, was eating the drywall and trying to get into his bedroom where it thinks he and his brother are. 

      "Mom?" He choked the word out automatically, fearfully, softly. She looked up and screamed, it wasn't his mother and the sound... it was an inhuman sound full of rage, and hunger, and evil. Evil so strong it was no longer a doubt that his mother was gone and her body had been taken by some demon. She was bleeding from her hands, nails ripped out, and teeth red from cuts from the hard drywall she'd been eating. Her hair was stringy and greasy, and her skin was sweaty and covered with drywall dust. With a scream of his own he ran, half tripping down the stairs in his half blinding fear.

          She pounced him and he fell down the last few steps, her hands clawing and teeth biting. With a scream he pushed her off and went o the kitchen, down again, she scratched and bit him, ripping chunks of flesh off his shoulder and clawing his neck. His blood ran down, mixing with the spilled flour and broken kitchen appliances, he screamed and struggled, his throat was raw from crying in fear and pain. He grabbed at anything to save him, his hand closed on a knife that had fallen off the counter, he struck, police sirens sounded outside, his brother had succeeded , his vision went foggy when his mothers teeth sank into his throat ripping his jugular, spraying his blood across the kitchen. 

         He felt his blood enter his lungs and he struggled to breath, and his hand dropped from the knife embedded in his mothers back. His eyes closed, all went black, he never heard his little brother cry in fear as he saw his older brother die, watching through the sliding glass door, nor did he see  the bullets from the police officers piercing his mothers body, her blood sprayed the kitchen floor and mingled with his own.  

     The brother died before he was even loaded up into the ambulance, but his little brother refused to believe it. He cried as he clung to the body of his brother, sobbing and shaking the dead, bloody, husk that was his brothers remains. The paramedics gently pulled the younger brother away, he is wrapped in a shock blanket and sat in the ambulance, he's checked for injuries and concussion. His mother is placed on a gurney too. She's covered in a sheet, blood soaks through the sheet. The boy watches the blood grow, then the sheet twitches. 

       No one notices as he walks up to it. No one see's when he moves the sheet off his mother's face, but they all see and hear when something, something black and evil bursts out of her skin like a snake shedding it's skin, but faster and more violent. It's impossibly long six legs unfolded, black and shiny and sticky with her blood, bits of her were everywhere. Her son, the youngest boy, was covered in the blood. Before anyone could get to him one leg landed on the ground, through the boy. He never had a chance to scream.

     The creature stood up to it's full height, brushing the phone wires, it's two beady black eyes looked at the people surrounding. It was silent, then it roared, it's mouth opened, both jaws opening, revealing a smaller set of teeth. They looked sharp but nobody was going to check. The policeman called for backup, unfortunately he was stepped on before he could finish the sentence. The monster stumbles as it walks, it is young, but still fast and deadly. People screaming the streets as it turns around it's beetle like torso knocking over a telephone pole.

    Following the screams it starts to run, It grab's someone up with a claw, lifting up the struggling person to it's maw. The man is still screaming when he is ripped in half, some of his intestines fall to the ground as he is messily devoured. Another is grabbed by the claw, she too is ripped apart. Her screams cut like knives, they chill people to the bone and no one can move. No one does a thing as it gallops down the street on it's six clawed, spiny, black legs. It vanishes into the trees, rustling branches as it vanishes into the woods. 

   The police never found the creature, search parties and swat teams that ventured deep into the woods after it never returned. People stopped going into the forest, and eventually it was fenced off completely. Some say it's just an urban legend, either way, it never left, and no one goes back inside.