Night Stalker

Umbreon TF Request.

Tossing and turning in his bed, Charlie was once again restless from the previous nights before.

He always knew it would be there, and he knew where it was going to be. The only problem factor was that the time in which it came was unpredictable. But every night, its there on the balcony outside his room. A dark, fox looking creature sits on the stone railing and looks up at the moon. But its always a shadow, the pitch black of the night making it too difficult to see any body details.

But tonight was the night he was going to go through with his plan: capturing it. Charlie flipped onto his side to look at the red digits on his bulky alarm clock. 1:25AM. He already knew it hadn't come yet, for he would of felt its presence nearby. He threw the covers off of him and grunted while he sat up on his bed, anxious for the creature to come.

"How much longer?" He whispered to himself, turning to the side and standing up on his wooden flooring.

The glass door out to his balcony shined in bright moon light, as Charlie silently made his way to the side of it, his back against the dresser and out of sight from anything outside. He crouched down slightly and reached his arm behind him to grab a large net, perfect for capturing the creature with.

He pulled it out of an open drawer and wielded it in his right hand. Charlie then waited for the creature to come, as he got onto his knees and pulled the window curtain towards him to get a better view of the balcony.

It was getting hard for Charlie to even stay awake, his eyes feeling very hot and heavy. But he managed to fight through it, although he wasn't sure how much longer he could keep it up for. He looked over at the alarm clock to check the time. 2:02AM. It had to of come soon.

Suddenly, Charlie felt a familiar presence enter the area. He peeked his head around the corner to see the creature sitting on the stone railing outside, its blood red eyes looking up at the bright moon in the sky.

"Time to get you." Charlie said, silently pushing the door open.

He walked onto the balcony without making a single sound. Charlie inched his way to the creature, raising up the net as he got closer to it. He saw some vague details on the creature, but it was still far too dark to even tell what they were. Yellow what seemed like rings were on its ears and limbs, somewhat glowing in the dark.

But he could inspect it later, all he cared about was capturing it. Charlie was now about one foot away from the creature, the net high in the air. In one swift movement, he threw the net down over the creature, taking it by surprise. Charlie clenched the top part of the net to prevent the creature from escaping, as it wiggled around in the net.

He walked back into his room and carefully placed the creature on the bed, making a knot in the net so it couldn't escape. There was some room for it to stand in the net, as he stood up on its legs and looked at Charlie with its red eyes. He could tell the creature was in total shock, all of its legs shaking in fear.

"Its okay, I'm not going to hurt you." He said, slowly approaching the creature.

The creature backed up slightly, its tail sticking high in the air. The moment Charlie put its hand on its head, the creature was frightened and began to panic. It tried to run off of its bed, but having no grip on the inside of the net made it loose its balance, as it fell onto the floor, a loud squeaking sound coming from the creature.

"Shit!" Charlie said, running to the injured creature.

He could tell it landed hard, for a deep cut went ups its upper right leg. Charlie could see a tear in its eyes, as it began to breathe quickly from the pain.

"Crap. Don't worry, I'll be right back!" Charlie said, placing the creature up on the bed.

He paced himself to the laundry room downstairs and grabbed a towel to clean the wound. He ran back upstairs and into his room. Blood was soaked into his bed sheets. Charlie sighed knowing they would never come out. He decided to untie the net to make things easier for him and the creature.

Quickly taking off the knot, Charlie picked up the creature and wrapped the towel around the wound. The blue towel quickly turned into a tint of blood red, but it was effective enough to stop the bleeding for the moment. Charlie felt its heart racing faster than a race horse at the Kentucky Derby. Its soft paws clenched themselves to the back of Charlies red shirt for security.

Charlie went over to his small laundry basket and turned it over, the contents of it spilling out. He threw an old shirt into the basket and gently placed the creature in it. The moment he placed it down, it tried to jump out of the basket, but its injured leg prevented it from doing so. The creature simply curled up in the basket, looking up at Charlie.

To Charlie, the creature looked rather cute laying in the basket, even though it was doing so out of its own will. He saw that the towel had come loose on the wound, as some blood began to pour out again. Charlie bent down and reached for the towel, only to be struck by a large pain in his hand. The black furred creature had sunk its teeth into Charlies wrist, as he pulled his arm out in pain.

"What was that for?! Now both of us are bleeding!" He said, kneeling down once again and wrapping the towel around the creature, making sure it didn't bite him again.

Charlie watched the blood spew out of his hand, as well as the blood from the creature covering his hand as well. He grunted in anger, as he walked out of his room and into the bathroom to clean off the cut. When he returned, the creature was still in the exact same position in the basket, not even moving an inch.

"Man, god only knows what your blood did to me." He said.

Charlie sat down on his bed and stared at the creature, while the creature stared back at him. He didn't even know what to do with it now, knowing he hadn't thought his plan through very well. Just the thought of it gave him a headache, as he tried to push it away and out of his mind. But the pain in his head still remained.

"Headaches, eh? Really funny." He said, deciding to go and get some medicine.

As he stood up, he felt that something was wrong. Everything around him seemed to be getting bigger, while his clothes got heavier. He suddenly realized that he was shrinking, and fast! Charlie didn't even know what to do, as inch by inch was taken off his height. He watched in horror as his clothes covered over his shrunken body.

He managed to crawl out of the pile of clothes, to find that he had gone from being six feet to only two feet in matter of seconds. He gave an angry glare at the creature watching him, as he felt another change come. Charlie began to observe his skin discoloring, as the hairs on his arms and legs turned into sleek black fur. Yellow rings of fur grew on his upper arms and legs, almost shining from how bright they were.

He felt a strange feeling come over him, as he looked out the still opened door way into the black sky. For some reason, it seemed more appealing to him. But, something distracted his mind as he began to feel more unbalanced. He looked down at his fur covered feet to be greeted by a horrific sight. His toes merged into four thick toes while his toenails hardened and expanded. He felt soft pads of skin form on the bottom of his feet, as they turned into animal paws. The changes made on his feet triggered his legs to change as well, as he watched the top part of them widened and gain more muscle, turning into digitigrade legs.

Charlie's sudden loss of balance took him by surprise, as he quickly fell onto the ground, landing on his hands. However, he hadn't even realized that his arms followed nearly the identical fate of his legs and feet. He stood on all four of his legs, somewhat confused on how he was able to do so. He looked under him to see his torso concave in slightly, once existing fat now vanishing. Suddenly, a rather odd sensation filled Charlie's spine, as he watched a somewhat bullet shaped tail come out of his skin, a yellow ring of fur near the tip of it.

Finally, Charlie felt the last changes come, as the fur covered his head like a blanket, another yellow ring of fur coming out of his forehead. His hair retracted back into his body, turning into fur. It began in his ears, as he felt them gain length and shoot up to the top of his head. He twitched both of them to feel how long they had actually gotten.

Next came his eyes, as he felt his eye sockets expand and shift to the side slightly. His vision was cut for a split second but came back as his eyes turned blood red. Charlie was shocked on how the world looked around him. Everything seemed to stick out more, becoming much brighter and visible.

The changes came to his jaw and nose area, as he felt them grow out into a point, his teeth gaining some sharpness while his nose shrank and turned black. Charlie felt now that the changes had ended, as he sat down and observed his new body.

He noticed he looked identical to the creature laying in the basket, both of their red eyes meeting. Charlie twitched his tail, the feeling of having extra weight on the back side of him somewhat odd.

"You look quite good." Said the creature in the basket in a masculine tone.

"You can talk?" Charlie said, amazed that he could talk himself.

"Yes, but humans don't understand us Umbreons."

"Umbreons?"

"Its what I am and you are now. Now come here and help me unwrap this towel, the bleeding has stopped."

Charlie fox trotted over to the basket and hopped into it, somewhat shocked by how he jumped. Using his teeth, him and the Umbreon yanked the towel off and threw it to the side.

"Thank you. Now, why did you capture me in the first place?" He said, hopping out of the basket, Charlie doing the same.

"You were always on that stone railing every night. I wanted to find out what you were."

"I wasn't doing any harm to you!"

Charlie was speechless, for he had realized his mistake.

"Listen, you need to come with me. There are more of us hiding in the woods nearby. But first, we need to give you a name."

"My name is Charlie."

"Not a human name, fool! How about Hunter? You seem to be pretty attentive."

"Fine by me, I guess."

"Very well. Now, we must go, for the sun will be coming out any minute now."

Hunter looked out the door to see the morning twilight in the sky. He nodded at the Umbreon, as the both of them made their way to the door and off the balcony. Hunter followed the Umbreon through his backyard and under the fence, leading directly into the vast forest, and his new home, his old home not so far away.